Hi Kfir, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Kfir Lavi <lavi.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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! >
Thanks for your advice. I added these suggestions on both hosts and restarted sshd but I'm still getting the delays in typing the bash commands on ssh and gringotts is still slow. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish > Kfir > > -- ------------------------------------------ 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
