Weird Networking(?) problem....

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 06/13/2012 01:23 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> I've run into what I find to be a weird problem which may be network stack
> related...or something else.
> 
> Running a fully updated F16/KDE system and the latest flash plugin installed.
> 
> I watch MLBtv which uses flash but seems to do only streaming as it doesn't produce
> any temp files that I can see.   Well, after some time, very unpredictable, the video
> starts to stutter the pauses can last for milliseconds or a second or two.  It would
> seem to be network congestion.....
> 
> However, run a network speed test with a server external to the network and
> everything seems OK.  Also, I don't have any issues on another machine that is
> viewing streaming content.
> 
> I logout and login and the problem persists.
> 
> However, if I reboot the problem is gone....until the next time.
> 
> Very confused as to what may be causing the problem that a logout/login won't correct
> that a reboot does.  I've got 8G of RAM and there is no swapping going on.
> 
> Any suggestions as to what to try to correct the issue without rebooting?

There could be invisible files in /tmp directory.
Check if the available disk space gets lower and lower while streaming;
writing on an almost full disk can become slow.


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