Buying your coffee at the grocery store and drinking it at home for a week will probably save you enough to buy a new laptop for when you go back to Starbucks. On 05/26/2013 02:12 PM, Mike Bydalek wrote: > Don't give up your Starbucks! Until you get it fixed (and as a good > backup access mechanism) check out http://www.teamviewer.com. Every OS > is supported and you can access your desktop from a web browser remotely. > > -Mike > > On Sunday, May 26, 2013, Mark Phillips wrote: > > Thanks to everyone for their suggestions! > > The good news.....the server is healthy, and I solved the problem > of the "ssh session ignoring me every few minutes". It seems I > made a mistake in the configuration of openVPN in my new ASUS > DD-WRT router. > > The better news....turning off openVPN on my router also solved my > intermittent LAN printing and scanning issues. > > The bad news.....need to fix the VPN connection to my LAN. I guess > I will be drinking my Starbs at home for awhile! ;) > > Happy Memorial Day Weekend to all PLUGers!! > > Mark > > > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Lisa Kachold > wrote: > > Hello Mark, > > > > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Mark Phillips > wrote: > > I have an old headless server running Linux version > 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-48squeeze1) (dannf@debian.org) > (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ). Recently, when I > log in using ssh the terminal window freezes for a few > seconds, then usually comes back. The command line stops > printing the characters I am typing, the cursor stops > blinking, and then after a few seconds, it comes back. > This happens every few minutes, so it is becoming rather > annoying. > > > Here's the general list (some of which you have done already). > > 0 - Make sure that it's not swapping with "free". > 1 - Check that you have no ethernet errors with "ethtool eth0" > (or whatever your interfaces are) and look for errors. > 1.5 - Check ' netstat -s -p|grep "segments retransmited" ' > for packet loss > 2 - Check "netstat -antp" to see what is listening and/or > bogging down. > 3 - Check "lsof" to see what the system is doing. > 4 - Are you accessing SSH via SSH forwarding, a different > place/network or VPN? This could be a MTU issue. > 5 - Run "nmap $servername" from your system to check what is > available and listening. > 6 - Look in your logs for security issues; specifically access > attempts to open ports; firewall to only allow source and > destination for SSH, DNS or other Mail as appropriate. > 7 - Disable your SSH timeout - just to be safe: > http://docs.oseems.com/general/application/ssh/disable-timeout > 8 - Use a ping from your system to the server to see if you > can see latency. > 9 - Use a traceroute/tracert to see latency between any hop. > > Use the Source my friend! > > > When I check the disks, I get > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 182G 42G 131G 25% / > tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /lib/init/rw > udev 500M 140K 500M 1% /dev > tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sdb1 230G 146G 72G 67% /mnt/sdb > > So I am not running out of disk space. > > When I run top, I get this output: > Tasks: 90 total, 3 running, 87 sleeping, 0 > stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 7.0%us, 3.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 82.7%id, 6.6%wa, > 0.3%hi, 0.3%si, 0.0%st > Mem: 1032748k total, 1013748k used, 19000k free, > 242992k buffers > Swap: 2017272k total, 1040k used, 2016232k free, > 473584k cached > > So I am not running a process that is taking over the CPU. > > How should I go about diagnosing this problem? > > Thanks! > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > > (503) 754-4452 Android > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual." Patrick Moore