Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:26:46 +0200 From: Emil Khatib <fenomenoxp2@gmail.com> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP slows down the system Message-ID: <dd999232050418132636d1b222@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050417192226.GA16220@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <dd999232050417120478ba53ac@mail.gmail.com> <20050417192226.GA16220@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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Hey! this seems to work properly. At least by the moment. It works even better than when i was disconnected :P. Thanks a lot On 4/17/05, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> wrote: > 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). >=20 > 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 > <jonc@chen.org.nz> | To be is to do -- Sartre > | Scooby do be do -- Scooby >
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