-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE70GupA68l26XsZUYRAilzAKCbVONGbjfZhz9A62ZASI6wQScr+wCgshOt /hgQhQmshe1TbaSqSQVJUd4= =Mglt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----