By statikeffeck
Is there some sharing algorithm on Digital Ocean that locks up sessions for seconds at a time while logged in over SSH? Here’s my experience: I’m logged in to my 1GB RAM Droplet (Ubuntu 14.04) and I’m setting up services, editing files with vim, etc. I can type in bursts with no lag for maybe 20-30 seconds, then it is completely frozen (not responsive to keystrokes) for 3-5 seconds, then anything I typed while frozen gets all sent at once.
This is extremely annoying, especially if I’m using the backspace key… Is this a know issue or a temporary problem? It doesn’t happen to me with Linode. Thanks
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Terrible lag for ssh to do anything useful in it. It’s incredibly frustrating. Please fix this somehow
I’m having the same problem. Horrible typing lag over SSH to NY. I just spun up the smallest slice because of the FreeBSD addition. It’s almost unusable; my linodes never have this issue regardless of where the linode is in the USA versus me. I think it lags worse than doing dyndns with my home internet. My pings are in the 50-80ms which should be PLENTY fine for simple SSH command line stuff.
Any ideas why?
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