On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Bob Smith wrote: > I have RH9, but have noticed the same situation with a Fedora installation. > Both of these installations are "as is," out of the box. The hardware > is a 2.4 GHz Pentium on RH9 and 3.1 GHz Dell Optiplex GX280, respectively. > > There are times when the windowing system comes as close to freezing as > you can get, and then it takes a long time to launch a window or terminal. > I can sit and watch the "Starting terminal" message for a period of time > before it actually shows up. Sometimes, especially being left for a while, > or even overnight, it takes a long time to "get to its feet." At the same > time, logging in from the outside is not too bad. > > Is there a reason for this? More importantly, is there anyway to get > better windowing performance? > The only time I've had this problem is if the box can't resolve it's own ip to a host name. If I put the box's ip in the /etc/hosts file, it starts working again. Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
