[plug] System slowdown help

[Tony Clark]

I use dhcp as well and do exactly that way.
This is my hosts file
127.0.0.1       localhost power.ballistics.net

Put what ever is in /etc/hostname

tony




On Tuesday 03 September 2002 21.25, Steege, Phil E wrote:
> Tony,
>
> Your last comment got me thinking about something.  One difference with
> this install and my last one was that before I used static IP addresses on
> all four machines on my network.  On this rebuild I chose DHCP because I
> just added another old P100 machine running the Smoothwall firewall
> product, and wanted to give DHCP a try on one machine.
> So I did not touch the /etc/hosts file this time.  Usually I would create a
> common hosts file for all my PC's and use rdist to distribute it whenever
> there were changes.
> So for my machine, called 'phil' should I enter the following:
>
> 127.0.0.1	localhost	phil.myhouse.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Clark [mailto:tclark at telia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:47 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] System slowdown help
>
>
> I've seen something like this in Gentoo linux.  No promises but try adding
> your machine name to /etc/hosts like this
>
> 127.0.0.1       localhost your.host.name
>
> tony
>
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 19.17, Steege, Phil E wrote:
> > My video card is a GeForce3 TI200 64MB card and I installed the latest
> > linux drivers from the Nvidia website.  I don't remember the Nvidia
> > driver version numbers.  I am not sure what you mean by "Does typing
> > work fine" ? If you mean typing inside the terminal window, that does
> > work fine.  There are no delays in the character response when I type
> > in the terminal windows.
> >
> > What also happens is that I will click on an application (such as
> > Mozilla or Konqueror) to start and KDE shows a 'mini' flashing icon
> > and then I wait for a long time before the app starts, IF it starts at
> > all. Things eventually start, but they just seem to take forever.  I
> > don't remember this much delay on redhat 7.2.
> >
> > I use Gkrellm to monitor processes and noticed that after I login I
> > see up to 100+ processes running.  Is that excessive for a X session?
> > I turned a few off, such as wwwoffle but that made no difference. I
> > plan to use tcpdump to monitor network traffic to see if there are
> > excessive amounts of activity there also.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Knight [mailto:anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 1:03 PM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: Re: [plug] System slowdown help
> >
> >
> > Hmmm...... what's your video card and what drivers are you using? Does
> > typing work fine out of X?
> >
> > >I am running redhat 7.3 on a new installation.
> > >I have a problem where at certain random times the system seems to
> > >slow down significantly.  I am running a KDE 3 desktop.
> > >Some of the symptoms are that when I type 'su -' there is a long delay
> > >before the password prompt returns (by long delay, I mean 10-15
> > > seconds). When I jump out to a virtual terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1) the same
> > > delay is seen.
> > >
> > >I used 'top' to monitor processes, with a 1 second refresh, and do
> > >not see anything 'hogging' excessive CPU or MEM usage.
> > >
> > >Does anyone have any ideas on how I can trap the culprit that slowing
> > >my system down?
> > >
> > >Phil
> >
> > Make lunch, not war.
> >
> >
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