Network Perfomance

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:38 -0600, Peter Dominey wrote:
> Thanks,
> 
> Sorry I missed mentioning that I did that as well. What about the tcp/ip
> window size or MTU would you expect to have to change that ?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 08:30 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 09:09 -0600, Peter Dominey wrote:
> > > It has to be some configuration issue, I'm thinking. I am getting really
> > > lousy network performance, particularly evidenced when using Firefox to
> > > the Internet. I have followed the information I could find in FAQ'd etc
> > > and changed my /etc/sysctl.conf file:
> > ----
> > you might want to try disabling ipv6
> > 
> > Add "alias net-pf-10 off" to /etc/modprobe.conf and reboot
> > 
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perhaps your dns is really slow.

try pinging your entries in /etc/resolv.conf to see if they are alive.

If they are alive, see if you have the correct dns entries with whomever
provides dns for your system. Sometimes a slow dns server will kill
performance.

Craig