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On Friday 19 October 2001 12:13, Robert P. Goldman opined on the topic: 
Re: [TCLUG] Mandrake on a P100?
> Thanks for the news.  I'll have to look at my install to see what's
> making it such a dog.  I've been peeking periodically with 'top', but
> all I see is lots of time going into idle, while the little icons that
> tell me I should have a program running, are doing pointless
> animations....
>
> Anyone have any suggestions for diagnosing this?

I've run into slowness problems when I got disconnected from my network. 
The reason is that X, being a network-based application, tries to do 
hostname lookups for just about every request made -- including launching 
programs. If it can't find the host name, it will wait to timeout before 
allowing the program to launch. To fix it, I added my hostname to the 
/etc/hosts file, with the IP 127.0.0.1 -- I don't know if there is a 
better solution. This worked well enough for me.

Dave
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