April 2002 - WLUG - wlug.mailman3.com

CPU & Bad NFS Question

by Marc Hughes

So yesterday I had an nfs mount go bad (thought it would be a great idea to just use nfs for a few minutes to do some file comparisons across machines) .. And since then the CPU utilizaion on the machine has been pegged out. The machine still is very responsive. When the mount went bad ... I couldn't do anything with any process that was using anything on that volume. I tried a bunch of stuff, but eventually just shut down NFS (so the processes got an I/O error and died) and did an "umount -f" on that volume. Any ideas on how to make this better? -Marc CPU0 states: 14.0% user, 85.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle CPU1 states: 50.0% user, 50.0% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 1048088K av, 1023836K used, 24252K free, 0K shrd, 45404K buff Swap: 1052248K av, 148K used, 1052100K free 763964K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE LC STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 20099 hughesm 16 0 940 940 696 3 R 2.6 0.0 0:00 top 20074 root 2 0 1716 1704 1188 2 S 0.3 0.1 0:00 sshd 1 root 0 0 484 484 408 3 S 0.0 0.0 2:31 init 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 0:18 kflushd 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 9:22 kupdate 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 2 SW 0.0 0.0 9:00 kswapd

April 4, 2002

ADV: Harvest lots of Email addresses quickly

by eyou321

April 4, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area)

by Clint Moyer

I used Galaxy for about 4 years with zero problems before I went cable last year. Clint -----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Michelle Vadeboncoeur Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 12:42 PM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area) On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Stephen C. Daukas wrote: SCD> A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put SCD> together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less SCD> expensive "dial-up account". SCD> SCD> Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He SCD> doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times during the SCD> day. Speaking of which, does anyone have any experience with either gis.net or thecia.net ? $20 set-up fee, $14.95/month. prepay 6 or more months, it's $11.95/month. sign-up online, and you get $5 off teh $20 set-up fee ($15 instead). I'm looking for a better plan than the AT&T Worldnet service that my mother has. She used to be on AT&T's 7/7 plan ($7/mo., 7c/min long distance, the basic ATT Worldnet service (150 hours/mo., with ads)), but ATT just dropped herfrom that with no warning (saying that thethe plan was no longer offered), so now she's stuck looking for long distance service and also internet service. (The ATT Worldnet alone is >$15/mo.) In her experience, I can definately say to stay away from Juno (and since they're with NetZero now...) -- --==*==-- --==*==-- Michelle R. Vadeboncoeur --==*==-- --==*==-- mrv(a)kluge.net: http://www.kluge.net/~mrv/ _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 3, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area)

by stark＠galaxy.net

On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 01:32:22PM -0500, Clint Moyer <cdmoyer(a)charter.net> wrote: > I used Galaxy for about 4 years with zero problems before I went cable last > year. Another good point of galaxy is that I can use IMAP. For some reason they don't officially tell it though. Is there any cable ISP providing IMAP ? /stark

April 3, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area)

by Michelle Vadeboncoeur

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Stephen C. Daukas wrote: SCD> A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put SCD> together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less SCD> expensive "dial-up account". SCD> SCD> Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He SCD> doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times during the SCD> day. Speaking of which, does anyone have any experience with either gis.net or thecia.net ? $20 set-up fee, $14.95/month. prepay 6 or more months, it's $11.95/month. sign-up online, and you get $5 off teh $20 set-up fee ($15 instead). I'm looking for a better plan than the AT&T Worldnet service that my mother has. She used to be on AT&T's 7/7 plan ($7/mo., 7c/min long distance, the basic ATT Worldnet service (150 hours/mo., with ads)), but ATT just dropped herfrom that with no warning (saying that thethe plan was no longer offered), so now she's stuck looking for long distance service and also internet service. (The ATT Worldnet alone is >$15/mo.) In her experience, I can definately say to stay away from Juno (and since they're with NetZero now...) -- --==*==-- --==*==-- Michelle R. Vadeboncoeur --==*==-- --==*==-- mrv(a)kluge.net: http://www.kluge.net/~mrv/

April 3, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area)

by Mike

You can take a look at surfbest or cognisurf. $12.50/month. http://www.alllongdistance.com/web.html BTW, being up front this is my site. Michael LaPointe > -----Original Message----- > From: wlug-admin(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On > Behalf Of Stephen C. Daukas > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:42 AM > To: wlug(a)wlug.org > Subject: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area) > > > A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put > together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less > expensive "dial-up account". > > Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He > doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times > during the > day. > > Also, anyone know if you can set-up email forwarding in AOL? > > Thanks! > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

April 3, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area)

by The Greater Worcester Land Trust

For what it is worth I can say that I have been on Ultranet, RCN and Cyberonic dial-up accounts quite a bit, and I have some experience with Netway as well. Ultranet got eaten (too bad too.) I found RCN's service to be very solid and reliable, but their billing policies have a tendency towards the duplicitous. Also the service line leads into endless oblivion, and they have a policy of never letting you get a name or a service tech back on the line, or even a consistent call center. I was less than a fan. Cyberonic has been solid so far (using it since January), and the tech line has not required hours on hold. I have been pretty happy with them. Buy a year with Cyberonic and it works out to $13.99 a month. Buy two years up front and it is less. Unlimited dialup, with a restriction of keeping any one log on to under 8 hours (thought they have not pulled the plug on an active transfer at 8 hours for me, just a dead line) Also Cyberonic has an office in Worcester. Netway is ok, but the pipe gets real small during the busy part of the day and you want to shoot yourself waiting for stuff (folks with their own cable modem have no idea how close you live to insanity on a dial up line to begin with so any further constriction is pure torture.) My thoughts. Ignore them. Colin On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:41:51 -0500, Stephen C. Daukas wrote: >A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put >together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less >expensive "dial-up account". > >Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He >doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times during the >day. > >Also, anyone know if you can set-up email forwarding in AOL? > >Thanks! >Steve > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 3, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area)

by Gary J. Hanley

Until late last year I would have recommended my ISP, www.theworld.com. However they have faltered as of late, especially with their mail system and other small issues that add up to one big one. But, you can get a cheap and limited account there so if he doesn't mind dealing with intermittent email issues maybe it's what he's looking for...? -- Gary On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Stephen C. Daukas wrote: > A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put > together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less > expensive "dial-up account". > Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He > doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times during the > day. > Also, anyone know if you can set-up email forwarding in AOL? > Thanks! > Steve

April 3, 2002

Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area)

by Stephen C. Daukas

A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less expensive "dial-up account". Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times during the day. Also, anyone know if you can set-up email forwarding in AOL? Thanks! Steve

April 3, 2002

RE: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area)

by Simoncini, Matthew

www.speakeasy.net -----Original Message----- From: Stephen C. Daukas [mailto:stephen@daukas.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:42 AM To: wlug(a)wlug.org Subject: [Wlug] Looking for dial-up provider (Westboro area) A friend of mine has a small business in Westborough and I helped put together a web site for him. He now wants to dump AOL and get a less expensive "dial-up account". Anyone have a recommendation? He is paying ~$25/month for AOL... He doesn't want/need Charter, just wants to check mail a few times during the day. Also, anyone know if you can set-up email forwarding in AOL? Thanks! Steve _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

April 3, 2002