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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 22:26:46 +0200
From: Emil Khatib <fenomenoxp2@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: PPP slows down the system
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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
>