Apps slow to launch when using CiscoVPN?

[Ashley Aitken]

Howdy All,

When I use CiscoVPN (4.9.01 (0080) on Mac OS X 10.5.7 all applications  
become excruciatingly slow to launch (they bounce in the dock and then  
stop and then after a long while they become active).

Once running they are fine (unless something else seems to spawn  
within the app when there can be a big delay again).  Web browsing is  
fine once the browser starts (so I don't think it is DNS).

I have the CiscoVPN setup to allow access to the local LAN and the  
same problem occurs whether I use UDP or TCP.  Sometimes for a short  
while after I have started the VPN connection apps start ok, then apps  
take forever again.

Any ideas on what could be causing this?  It hasn't happened in the  
past and I'm not sure when it begun, except I started noticing it a  
month or so ago.  Again, apps work fine once they are started.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Cheers,
Ashley.

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[Perbix, Michael]

Not that is helps....but the most recent version of the VPN software is....

vpnclient-darwin-4.9.01.0180-universal-k9.dmg

I am not sure if that will help or not, but I run VPN over my FiOS connection all the time from home (pretty much nightly) from both Windows and OSX (10.5.7) and have no issues whatsoever....

If you have a Cisco CCO account, I suggest you (or your network person) get their hands on the latest and give that a try.

   -Mike



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Subject: Apps slow to launch when using CiscoVPN?


Howdy All,

When I use CiscoVPN (4.9.01 (0080) on Mac OS X 10.5.7 all applications
become excruciatingly slow to launch (they bounce in the dock and then
stop and then after a long while they become active).

Once running they are fine (unless something else seems to spawn
within the app when there can be a big delay again).  Web browsing is
fine once the browser starts (so I don't think it is DNS).

I have the CiscoVPN setup to allow access to the local LAN and the
same problem occurs whether I use UDP or TCP.  Sometimes for a short
while after I have started the VPN connection apps start ok, then apps
take forever again.

Any ideas on what could be causing this?  It hasn't happened in the
past and I'm not sure when it begun, except I started noticing it a
month or so ago.  Again, apps work fine once they are started.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Cheers,
Ashley.

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[Ashley Aitken]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your post.


On 22/06/2009, at 9:52 PM, Perbix, Michael wrote:

> Not that is helps....but the most recent version of the VPN software  
> is....
>
> vpnclient-darwin-4.9.01.0180-universal-k9.dmg
> If you have a Cisco CCO account, I suggest you (or your network  
> person) get their hands on the latest and give that a try.

I don't have a Cisco CCO account and gave up in disgust at trying to  
download the free VPN client from Cisco's Web site.  The absurdity of  
it all nearly made me cry.

However, I will look out for that later version from other sources  
(VersionTracker, MacUpdate).

> I am not sure if that will help or not, but I run VPN over my FiOS  
> connection all the time from home (pretty much nightly) from both  
> Windows and OSX (10.5.7) and have no issues whatsoever....

Thank you for that data point.  It must be something in my setup,  
either generally speaking of Mac OS X or specific to the VPN client.  
I will keep on checking.

It's quite strange though, I can't think of what could possibly make  
apps slow to start but run fine (mostly) when they are started.

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Ashley.


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[Ashley Aitken]

On 19/06/2009, at 12:40 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:

> When I use CiscoVPN (4.9.01 (0080) on Mac OS X 10.5.7 all  
> applications become excruciatingly slow to launch (they bounce in  
> the dock and then stop and then after a long while they become  
> active).


I upgraded to the latest CiscoVPN client (4.9.01 00180).  Silly thing  
is I had to download it from some unknown and untrusted third party  
location since I can't easily get it from Cisco.

Anyway, no real improvement  BUT I noticed again that for the first  
few minutes after the VPN connection is made that applications start  
at the normal speed. It's only after a few minutes that things slow  
down.

To me that is even stranger.  What could be happening to cause that?  
A resource being used up by the client? The machine has plenty of free  
memory ... Very strange indeed.

PS For some apps the GUI appears quite quickly but the app is not  
functional (doesn't draw real content) for a few minutes of beach-ball  
spinning.   Even restarting the same app just after quitting it.

I just noticed that spindump seems to run for a long time between (and  
after) the application is started and eventually when it becomes  
functional.  But there is no /Library/Logs/HangReport/ files for the  
applications just started.

I'm guessing that the apps are hanging on some resource, spindump  
starts up to try to monitor or fix things, eventually the resource  
becomes available and the apps proceeds, so spindump doesn't write a  
hang file.

Nothing in the log database / console.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Ashley.


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