From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EgqZw-0007jj-NQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:30:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jASLSXni016361; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:28:33 GMT Received: from infoline.su (mail.infoline.su [83.217.192.4]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jASLM2Ku011999 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:22:03 GMT Received: from baikal.iproducts.test ([10.129.16.199]) by infoline.su (infoline.su) (Cipher TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.1.R) with ESMTP id md50000728962.msg for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:28:41 +0300 Received: from [10.10.0.1] (baikal.iproducts.test [10.10.0.1]) by baikal.iproducts.test (8.13.4/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jASLLxHm022821 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:21:59 +0300 Message-ID: <438B74F6.4000604@infoline.su> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:21:58 +0300 From: Alexander Kirillov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051014) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? References: <1133211269.25761.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> In-Reply-To: <1133211269.25761.6.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Processed: infoline.su, Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:28:41 +0300 (not processed: spam filter disabled) X-MDRemoteIP: 10.129.16.199 X-Return-Path: nevis2us@infoline.su X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-MDAV-Processed: infoline.su, Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:28:42 +0300 X-Archives-Salt: 0a86a585-93bd-41c8-bf6b-e0912e7f6661 X-Archives-Hash: 8260b7b88136afcad4df621bc848eac8 > Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more > frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, > pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to > where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su - > to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back > on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and > then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some > message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts. I > checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just be a glitch with > monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so > heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was running just fine > - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down, > but everything inside my router should have been fine... Do you have nscd running? Try to stop or restart it. It can be a real nuisance when internet connection goes down. It's also a good idea to run dns server locally if only to troubleshoot name resolution problems. HTH, Sasha -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list