Re: Slow System

["Kevin D. Colby" <kevin marcal com>]

D0sE wrote:
> 
> well check the hostname of ur  box because if the hostname does not
> resolve like i said before to open netscape composer or anything like that
> first is gonna try to resolve ur boxes name and since that does not
> resolve its gonna take a long time before it times out to continue opening
> the program it self... so try naming ur box like
> hmm locahost
> that will always resolve on ur box

PLEASE, don't do that.
It's just not very nice.

Name your machine something interesting and short
and make sure you list it fully qualified and unqualified
in /etc/hosts (unless you're setting up DNS, but I doubt it).

-------------excerpt-----------------
207.79.113.34        myhost.here.net  myhost
-------------------------------------

That will solve any localname resolution problems,
which are typically identified by 2 minute delays
upon processes starting.  It will be almost exactly
2 minutes I believe, but I know that the delay will
_always_ be exactly the same duration.  It's the
timeout on the lookup.  Time your delays and if
they are predictable, this is probably your problem.

Also, try reading the logs, specifically /var/log/messages.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevin marcal com


> On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Ed Wolfe wrote:
> 
> > D0sE wrote:
> > >
> > > well for u transfer speed ull have to look for a good init string for ur
> > > modem so it works better with ur isps modems..
> >
> > I'm sorry. I guess I wasn't clear enough. It's not the
> > data transfer speed. To verify that I was connected, I went
> > to my ISP's webpage, and it loaded right up with no problem.
> >
> > The problem is the application itself. Like trying to change from
> > Navigator to Messenger takes about 2 minutes.
> >
> > Trying to get a New Message window to open, or a Forward window,
> > etc., takes a long time. That's why I said just deleting a
> > message takes a long time. That shoudn't take much resources.
> >
> > Trying to just get a drop down menu takes a while.
> >
> > Before I exited, sending the messages in the outbox didn't
> > take long at all. It just took forever to get a window to
> > write them in.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
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