On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > (I apologise from writing from my gmail.com account, but as you'll see > below, > writing from my home E-mail account is not bearable.). > > I have a desktop x86-64 Core i3 machine (running Mageia Linux 1) that > connects > via wired Ethernet to my NAT/router and there is a remote x86-64 Core Duo > laptop (running Mageia Linux 2), connected via wireless. Often when I type > commands on bash on the remote laptop via ssh, there is a significant > delay, > and moreover running claws-mail or gringotts (two fast gtk+ apps) from the > laptop are slow, which hadn't been the case with my older desktop machine. > tcpdump -i wlan0 on the laptop and htop on the laptop show nothing that > might > cause it. > > The delays in the connectivity were not bad with the previous desktop > machine > which was an old Pentium 4 2.4GHz machine, which was much slower and > underpowered. > > So far I tried: > > 1. Doing /etc/init.d/iptables stop on the desktop machine. > > 2. Relocating the laptop closer to the wifi NAT/router. > > Neither of those helped. > > Can anyone shed any light on this? > > Regards, > > -- Shlomi Fish > > > -- > ------------------------------------------ > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done > that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > Hi Shlomi, You need to edit 2 files: 1. edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and add the line 'UseDNS no' 2. edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure the line: 'hosts: files dns' have just the 'files' and 'dns'. delete everything else from this line. This will make ssh instant! Kfir
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