[ltp] System performance

[Richard Neill]

I've seen this sort of slowness before. If KDE apps take ages to start, 
(about 10 secs), it's quite often a symptom of a DNS error!! The laptop 
will try to look up its own IP details and fail. After timing out after 
10 sec, the application will start.

What do you have in /etc/hosts? (cat /etc/hosts and send us the output)

I have just this line (all one line, if the email line-wraps):

127.0.0.1       localhost toffee.XXX.org.uk toffee

Richard


P.S. Output from dmesg means run the dmesg command as root.



Adam wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> Tuesday, October 28, 2003, 8:25:05 PM, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>What is setup, on what ?
> 
> 
> Red Hat Linux 9.0
> 
> 
>>A dmesg output
> 
> 
> pardon?
> 
> 
>>What text editor did you "click" ?
> 
> 
> It says Text Editor. Under Accessories.
> 
> Even on a 200Mhz desktop under Windows, notepad would come up in well
> under a second.
> 

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