Hi Folks, I just this question in the abiword bugzilla about dashboard.
Any clues? Thanks! Martin ----------------------------------------------------------------- It appears that the dashboard uses tcp sockets and quite regularly. With a misconfigured firewall this can cause serious slow downs in Abiword as the input is filtered by the kernel. Iptables rules which look like the following are doing the damage: iptables -P INPUT DROP If the administrator or user does not remember to enable INPUT on the loopback interface after such a rule. Therefore, enabling INPUT on the loopback interface such as like: iptables -A INPUT -i lo -p all -j ACCEPT will resolve this issue. As will removing the dashboard. Here's the question though: Why does the dashboard use TCP sockets instead of UNIX sockets? Using UNIX sockets would resolve this issue even with a misguided firewall configuration. regards Alastair _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers