[CentOS] No Network = slow ??
Milton Calnek
milton at calnek.com
Wed Apr 16 22:05:13 UTC 2008
Startup wireshark... find out what those "non-network" apps are doing on the network.
What's your /etc/hosts file look like?
Michael A. Peters wrote:
> I lost my internet connection earlier today.
> My home network was still up - it's just the router couldn't get an IP
> from the cable modem.
>
> During that period, my CentOS 5.1 install was extremely slow (2.6 GHz
> Athlon w/ 2GB ram) at starting non network applications - such as
> solitare and gnome terminal. It would pause for several seconds before
> finally starting them.
>
> The machine does run bind as a caching nameserver - as I've found that
> to be more reliable than using my ISPs nameserver, so I'm guessing the
> slowdown was with bind not being able to resolve anything.
>
> Is there anything I can do to prevent the slow application launching in
> the event of lost network in the future?
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