Don&#39;t give up your Starbucks! Until you get it fixed (and as a good backup access mechanism) check out <a href="http://www.teamviewer.com">http://www.teamviewer.com</a>. Every OS is supported and you can access your desktop from a web browser remotely.<div>
<br></div><div>-Mike<span></span><br><br>On Sunday, May 26, 2013, Mark Phillips  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!<br><br></div>The good news.....the server is healthy, and I solved the problem of the &quot;ssh session ignoring me every few minutes&quot;. It seems I made a mistake in the configuration of openVPN in my new ASUS DD-WRT router.<br>

<br></div><div>The better news....turning off openVPN on my router also solved my intermittent LAN printing and scanning issues.<br></div><div><br></div>The bad news.....need to fix the VPN connection to my LAN. I guess I will be drinking my Starbs at home for awhile! ;)<br>

<br></div>Happy Memorial Day Weekend to all PLUGers!!<br><br>Mark<br></div><div><br><br><div>On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 1:44 AM, Lisa Kachold <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>lisakachold@obnosis.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello Mark,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div><div>On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a>mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I have an old headless server running Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-48squeeze1) (<a>dannf@debian.org</a>) (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.<br>


</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Here&#39;s the general list (some of which you have done already).</div><div><br></div><div>0 - Make sure that it&#39;s not swapping with &quot;free&quot;.</div><div>1 - Check that you have no ethernet errors with &quot;ethtool eth0&quot; (or whatever your interfaces are) and look for errors.</div>


<div>1.5 - Check  &#39;<span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,&#39;Lucida Console&#39;,&#39;Liberation Mono&#39;,&#39;DejaVu Sans Mono&#39;,&#39;Bitstream Vera Sans Mono&#39;,&#39;Courier New&#39;,monospace,serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px"> netstat -s -p|grep &quot;segments retransmited&quot; &#39; for packet loss</span></div>


<div>2 - Check &quot;netstat -antp&quot; to see what is listening and/or bogging down.</div><div>3 - Check &quot;lsof&quot; to see what the system is doing.</div><div>4 - Are you accessing SSH via SSH forwarding, a different place/network or VPN?  This could be a MTU issue.    </div>


<div>5 - Run &quot;nmap $servername&quot; from your system to check what is available and listening.</div><div>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.</div>


<div>7 - Disable your SSH timeout - just to be safe:  <a href="http://docs.oseems.com/general/application/ssh/disable-timeout" target="_blank">http://docs.oseems.com/general/application/ssh/disable-timeout</a></div><div>

8 - Use a ping from your system to the server to see if you can see latency.</div>
<div>9 - Use a traceroute/tracert to see latency between any hop.</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div>Use the Source my friend!  </div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<br></div><div>When I check the disks, I get<br># df -h<br>Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>/dev/sda1             182G   42G  131G  25% /<br>tmpfs                 505M     0  505M   0% /lib/init/rw<br>



udev                  500M  140K  500M   1% /dev<br>tmpfs                 505M     0  505M   0% /dev/shm<br>/dev/sdb1             230G  146G   72G  67% /mnt/sdb<br><br></div><div>So I am not running out of disk space. <br>



<br></div><div>When I run top, I get this output:<br>Tasks:  90 total,   3 running,  87 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie<br>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<br>Mem:   1032748k total,  1013748k used,    19000k free,   242992k buffers<br>



Swap:  2017272k total,     1040k used,  2016232k free,   473584k cached<br><br></div><div>So I am not running a process that is taking over the CPU.<br><br></div><div>How should I go about diagnosing this problem?<br><br>



</div><div>Thanks!<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div>Mark <br></div></font></span></div>
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