On Thursday 30 January 2003 01:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 6:30 pm, et wrote: > > <Snipped> > > > > > > I would suggest you turn of DNS, caching name server, named, routed > > > > and yp services and other YP services (unless you need them and > > > > understand how to correctly configure them > > > > > > seems that named (a DNS) would be the only one i need of the ones you > > > mentioned as i am attempting to setup a server/dumb terminal network as > > > per www.ltsp.org and need dns. the rest were deactivated as per your > > > suggestion. Dennis M. had mentioned that on his system leaving the bios > > > set to auto detect contributed to a slow and unstable system and > > > suggested doing a hd detect in bios. perhaps with both suggestions i > > > can get this thing moving! > > > > > > thank you (and Dennis M.) for your time and suggestion. > > > -iggy > > > > DNS, if not configured correctly is one of those things that will sure as > > hell start a system to crawl, as your box might decide it needs to look > > on the Internet for //iggy.ISP.com/home/Iggy/fileIneed.txt instead of > > /home/iggy/fileineed.txt, and look to the dns servers "upline" before > > timing out and looking for the file where it is supposed to be. this > > might only take ten seconds while your network is up, but 10 seconds > > added to the time to open each file can sure make it seem like it is > > crawling. IMHO, better to not try to setup a dns server untill the rest > > of the box is setup correctly. > > When I got dns wrong it affected absolutely everything. Opening a file > from the desktop took upwards of a minute. Sure the startup was very, very > slow, but so was every other time the system needed it. Maybe this setup > has a correct entry coupled with one or more incorrect ones, so that > eventually gets there, while mine just had to time out. > > Anne
i stopped the deamon from starting at boot, rebooted and checked to make sure that the deamon was stopped. it was... however, i'm still quite slow. it does not take me 1 minute more like 15 - 20 seconds to open programs. i do remember that the only other time i did a default install (mdk 8.2) i also had a slow system. once i did a custom install (checking only the programs i wanted and needed) the system ran fine. i'll reinstall if i have to :^( but i'm not looking forward to it (reeks of ms crap i went through w/ win98). anyother ideas would be greatly appreciated. -iggy
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