Hi, I don't what i have done to my system. Recently i found that my download speed from our server at most can give me 2.6k byte/s ftp.
After an ftp session, ifconfig tells me that ppp0 has 'n' rx errors and 'n' dropped where n can be 5, 6 or 7 etc ( the bigger the file download the larger n is. During downloading, i carefully looked at the modem RD lamp. I saw it flashing all the time and when i hear hard disk access, the RD lamp then stops for a part of a second and continues. It appears to me that when there is disk access the system will miss some data pumping in from the modem. I used to be able to get 3.1K bytes/s downloading compressed file. There have been a few changes to my system: 1. a few debian packages update (but i cannot remember what). 2. an upgrade of video adapter from et4000 to S3 pci adapter. Current system running: debian 1.1 with some package update ( libc5.4 ). kernel 2.0.27 amd586 133Mhz with 16M ram 1G /dev/hda and 345M /dev/hdc (secondary ide channel master ) - this has not been changed for many months. Could anybody shed some light on my problem? Cheers. Paul
