Buggy network connection causes very low system responsiveness

Ian Weller ianweller at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 18:46:19 UTC 2008


On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Martin Sourada wrote:
> At home I am connected to home network, most of the time wireless, but
> when wired the issue seems to be same. The connection of the home
> network to outside is quite buggy and traffic drops quite often to zero
> or near zero values, and sometimes the connection is even lost (it's via
> wifi, unfortunately with low visibility to the router we connect to).
>
> What bugs me is that when the connection is in its near-dead state my
> Fedora is very low responsive. For example I tried to open terminal (via
> key shortcut) and it didn't pop up at least for ten seconds, and then
> instantly when I disabled my network connections. This low
> responsiveness happens whenever the traffic drops to zero or near zero
> (and a lot of packets is lost). CPU load is at normal during the 'lags'.
> Also already loaded applications seems to behave decently.

I can say the same thing -- when my connection is slow, terminal takes a 
long time to start up.  (In fact, I get angry and start hitting it a 
bunch... I know my internet connection is back when 24 terminals pop up.)




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