Buggy network connection causes very low system responsiveness
Colin Walters
walters at verbum.org
Wed Apr 2 02:34:14 UTC 2008
2008/4/1 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>:
>
> My /etc/hosts file never changes during these operations, and the
> environment variable $HOSTNAME continues to be localhost.localdomain, which
> is defined in /etc/hosts
But does the kernel's idea of the hostname change? (output of
`hostname`) If it does that has historically broken X/ORBit.
The real fix for that is for desktops not to change the hostname at
all. Pick a hostname derived from the firstboot username, map it to
127.0.0.1, and never change it.
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