Buggy network connection causes very low system responsiveness

Martin Sourada martin.sourada at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 16:07:50 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 10:51 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> 2008/3/24 Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com>:
> >
> >  Just happened to experience the issue once again and the dead state was
> >  long enough to run the first command (and wait for the connection and
> >  terminal). I placed the results on my fedorapeople page:
> >  http://mso.fedorapeople.org/debug/gnome-terminal.log.gz
> 
> The /etc/hosts issue that came up elsewhere in this thread is almost
> certainly the problem; if you have an empty /etc/hosts nothing will
> work sanely.  My guess is you have some software installed which is
> doing bad things to it - maybe a bad dnsmasq configuration, or
> something else.
> 
Dunno. I wonder as well how did it happen to be empty...

> But as for the strace; I forgot to add the "-r" option which gives you
> timestamps, which we really need to debug this.
> 

New strace, now with the -r option disabled. I caught the dead state for
about 2s or so, hope it is enough.

http://mso.fedorapeople.org/debug/gnome-terminal.log.gz (I replaced the
old one).

Martin
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