[plug] System slowdown help

[Steege, Phil E]

I will verify my hosts file is the same way.

As a related question to DHCP, I tried to ping some hosts using hostnames
only and it did not work.  The machine I was pinging from (the one I set to
DHCP) only has the localhost info in the /etc/hosts file  The ping works
fine when I used their IP addresses.
How does a DHCP client keep track of other network machines by hostname when
their IP addresses can get changed by DHCP on the next reboot?  Should I be
running a local DNS server for my workstations ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Clark [mailto:tclark at telia.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 5:49 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] System slowdown help


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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