Hi Andrew, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:37:23PM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: > ... >> I'm running stable with some stuff off backports.org, like Firefox and >> Thunderbird. >> >> I can't pin down exactly what caused the problem, I've installed karm >> and flashplayer-nonfree lately too, I've removed flashplayer and that >> hasn't fixed the problem. >> >> Now some web pages download really slowly - including www.debian.org! >> The behavior goes something like this: I browse to that address and >> Firefox (or Mozilla or Evolution, they all behave the same way for a >> given web site, hence I suspect a library problem) contacts the server, >> and starts transferring data, and displays the page incrementally in >> teeny-tiny bits, about one graphic per second and up to 10 (wow, 10!) >> words a second. Slowly, slowly the web page will be displayed >> (rendered?) and eventually I'll get the page. > > what results do you get using wget for the same sites?
Now that is weird - wget www.debian.org downloads the site at about 300B/s (yes, bytes per second) Am I missing something? But if I start my VM and load XP debian.org comes down in about 2 seconds still. -- Greg Vickers IT Security Engineer & Project Manager IT Security, Network Services, Information Technology Services Queensland University of Technology L12, 126 Margaret St, Brisbane Phone: +61 7 3138 9536 Mobile: 0410 434 734 Fax: +61 7 3138 2921 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IT Security web site: http://www.its.qut.edu.au/itsecurity/ CRICOS No. 00213J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]