Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:22:26 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Emil Khatib <fenomenoxp2@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP slows down the system Message-ID: <20050417192226.GA16220@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <dd999232050417120478ba53ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <dd999232050417120478ba53ac@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:04:11PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP,
> and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works
> quite bad (and so KDE). When I try "startx", it freezes for a few
> seconds and then it starts and takes a long time to load KDE. Also,
> the applications in KDE start very slowly (when they start).
KDE does DNS lookups like crazy. Make sure you've got an entry in
/etc/hosts for the output of hostname(1), and see whether that makes a
difference.
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