On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 12:08:51 +0200, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > the dns setup both at home as at work is solid (I'm a sysadmin, so > yes, I know). I fail to see how dns should have local graphical logins > slow down randomly, to be honest. Could you care to ellaborate? I am not sure what the mechanism would be. But the delay period suggests dns as one possible cause. But it could be a network timeout waiting on some other service as well. It's just that dns is the most common thing to be waiting on when you see this. > > As to disk i/o, nope, it's nearly non-existent. I can logon a vt and > start top and the system is idle. > > Any other ideas? Maybe telnet into the machine from elsewhere before X is running and either use startx or telinit to start up X and then take a look around. Maybe disk activity spikes then. Maybe you can spot an unexpected network connection attempt. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
