Gnome performance question

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at Weiss.name
Thu Sep 30 12:20:05 UTC 2004


On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Bob Smith wrote:

> I have RH9, but have noticed the same situation with a Fedora installation.
> Both of these installations are "as is," out of the box.  The hardware
> is a 2.4 GHz Pentium on RH9 and 3.1 GHz Dell Optiplex GX280, respectively.
> 
> There are times when the windowing system comes as close to freezing as
> you can get, and then it takes a long time to launch a window or terminal.
> I can sit and watch the "Starting terminal" message for a period of time
> before it actually shows up.  Sometimes, especially being left for a while,
> or even overnight, it takes a long time to "get to its feet."  At the same
> time, logging in from the outside is not too bad.
> 
> Is there a reason for this?  More importantly, is there anyway to get
> better windowing performance?
> 
The only time I've had this problem is if the box can't resolve it's own 
ip to a host name.  If I put the box's ip in the /etc/hosts file, it 
starts working again.

Ben




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