[CentOS] CentOS 5 ssloooowww when network unavailable

[John Newbigin]

Sounds like DNS.

At a guess, I would try adding your hostname to the /etc/hosts file and 
set either a permanent IP address, or use 127.0.0.1

John.

Bart Schaefer wrote:

> This is undoubtedly an upstream issue, but ...
> 
> I've been messing about with that hp pavilion trying to get wireless
> working.  If I boot with the eth0 NIC plugged in, everything is
> blazingly fast -- GDM comes up in a few seconds, the Gnome startup
> splash screen barely has time to appear before it's gone again, shells
> pop up the instant I click Open Terminal.
> 
> If I unplug the network and reboot, it all goes to hell.  It takes
> several minutes for GDM to start, the splash screen sometimes lingers
> up to 10 minutes after the window manager is running, terminal windows
> take varying lengths of time from 2-15 minutes to open.  It even takes
> 5-6 minutes to mount filesystems from the USB drive.
> 
> Nothing unusual appears in "top"; gnome-system-monitor is one of the
> apps that takes forever to launch (to the point that I thought it had
> crashed), but it doesn't show anything odd either.  No activity in the
> various /var/log files.  Any ideas what could be causing this?
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John Newbigin
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