On January 22, 2004 09:58 pm, David L Norris wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 18:17, Fred Nastos wrote: > > The only problem I have now is that it takes a noticeably long > > time for applications to start up, and I'm not talking about > > apps like OpenOffice. For example, it takes about 8 seconds > > for konsole or terminal to startup. Once the apps start-up they > > are as responsive as I'd expect. > > Make sure your /etc/hosts file has both the eth0 IP address with real > hostname and 127.0.0.1 localhost. Sounds like maybe it can't determine > its hostname. GNOME will warn of this condition at login but KDE may > not. You'll see all kinds of weirdness if that's the case. I tried logging in via GNOME, but I saw no such message. KDE also doesn't give a message. I just added the real hostname, so that now my /etc/hosts file has two lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost the_real_ip_address fully_qualified_machine_name machine_name Nothing really changed. So I tried running the prelinker as suggested in: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg05131.html That also didn't seem to immediately help. But after about two minutes everything started launching much more quickly (terminals in under a second, mozilla in less than two, etc...)!! Now, I just have to figure out why ssh is so slow. I had first attributed it to the same source as the above problem, but now that that is fixed, it is still taking a long time to connect to other machines. Thanks (especially to D. Norris and P. Macedo)
