----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Peoples" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "gnome-list" <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:26 Subject: Re: Gnome very slow > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 11:17, Colin Charles wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 22:29, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > I still have the problem with 30 sec delays (& more) between clicking on an > > > item and getting a response. Presently this occurs when the logout applett > > > is clicked and in nautilus where just about everything I try to check conf. > > > on results in long delays. The terminals work fine however. There was a > > > question about resolv.conf, which I reported consisted of two blank lines. > > > When I looked at it with kong. there were two entries. Numbers representing > > > address seperated by 1 digit xxx xxx xxx 2 & 3, likely my ISP. Running > > > mandrake 9.2 (upgraded). on a gigabyte KT-400 with a amd 2100+ XP. I need > > > some suggestions please? > > > > Also another thought: > > > > Does your /etc/hosts file resolve localhost correctly? > > > > The first line of that file should be: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost > > Along those same lines... you might want to check your /etc/hosts.conf > and /etc/nsswitch.conf to verify the order in which your machine is > trying to resolve names/addresses. > I'll check the files this afternoon and get back to you. My ISP is: 208.34.90.3 and my address is: 208.34.90.xxx where xxx has been observed to vary from 2 to 254 making my address dynamic. The way I read it. If it makes a difference (data is from Mandrake connections). > If it wants to use DNS before looking in the local hosts file then > I'd imagine you seeing terribly degraded performance if there really > is no network configured. > Regards; Hoyt _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
