[TriLUG] Need help finding bottleneck

[Roy Vestal]

That's really odd. I have a netgear 814 ( you stated yours was a 314). 
Wish I had another router to try.

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> I don't think the issue is DNS or linux server performance, exactly.  It's 
> probably the router doing odd things with the packets.
> 
> Roy - try pinging your server's external IP address from within the home 
> network.  See what kind of response time and packet loss you get.
> 
> In my situation, with the exact same symptoms (see previous post), I often 
> get 40-50% packet loss.  When downloading medium-sized files (e.g. images 
> from the gallery), I typically get 2-3 Kbytes/sec. - worse than dialup 
> speed.
> 
> Even if the packets are being sent to the cable modem, and bridged out to 
> the physical cable, and then back into the router, there is no excuse for 
> this kind of slowness, which is why I need a new router :-)
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Jason Tower wrote:
> 
>> there's an old auto repair joke: when troubleshooting a poorly running 
>> engine there are three main culprits: air, fuel, and ignition.  and it's 
>> *always* the ignition :)
>>
>> troubleshooting a poorly performing linux server isn't much different.  you 
>>   can look at ram, cpu, disks, and so on, but it's *always* dns.
>>
>> jason
>>
>> sholton wrote:
>>> Roy Vestal wrote:
>>>> Hey guys...need some troubleshooting help...
>>>>
>>>> Symptom:
>>>> when I load my webpage from home, or my gallery, it takes literally 
>>>> minutes to load. http://website/gallery for example can take upto 5 
>>>> min to load.
>>>>
>>>> When I'm at work, it loads great, within just a few seconds.
>>>
>>> I've seen a similar case, long ago (details fuzzy) where the problem was 
>>>  a server demanding a reverse-lookup on the requesting client which 
>>> wasn't available. (maybe httpd trying to log full hostnames but being 
>>> frustrated by timeouts on DNS hosts which weren't there.)
>>>
>