From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 17 19:22:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41B716A4CE for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:22:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 793D343D41 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:22:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6F0185641C; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:22:26 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:22:26 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Emil Khatib Message-ID: <20050417192226.GA16220@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP slows down the system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:22:30 -0000 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. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby