On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 12:25, Fred Nastos wrote: > 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...)!! That's just the disk cache filling up. > Now, I just have to figure out why ssh is so slow. When ssh is really slow for me, I generally find the problem is my ISP's name server being really slow in responding to lookups. I actually hand-edited /etc/resolv.conf in some desperation once, and added a couple of name servers I knew were up, close to me, and would respond quickly. -- Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx> Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
