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
> <lisakachold@obnosis.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Mark,
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Mark Phillips
> <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> 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
>
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