[kde-linux] internet very slow with konqueror

[Cédric Lucantis]

Le vendredi 23 février 2007 21:01, Kevin Krammer a écrit :
> On Friday 23 February 2007 16:44, Werner Joss wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 23. Februar 2007 15:56 schrieben Sie:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > my internet connection is actually _very_ slow (pages take ages to load
> > > and I often have to reload them several times because of 404 errors). I
> > > suspect konqueror or some lower kde module to be responsible because
> > > other applications like wget or apt-get generally work fine around
> > > 300k/s, but I know nothing about networks so I might be wrong. If I try
> > > to download a big file from a web page, it takes a long time to start
> > > (and sometimes fails) but once it's started the dl speed is reasonable.
> > > Even more frustrating, everything work fine with IE under windows :)
> > >
> > > I'm using Konqueror 3.5.5 on an up to date Debian Sid.
> > >
> > > Any suggestion welcome...
> >
> > this sounds like the so called 'IPV6 problem' - you might try to disable
> > ipv6 support, there should be an env variable KDE_USE_IPV6="no" to be set
> > somewhere in your system configuration. google for 'konqueror kde ipv6'
> > should also give you some hints.
>
> And something else that really improves loading of pages with several parts
> (lots of images, etc) is to run nscd
>
> /etc/init.d/nscd start
>
> This is name caching daemon of the system itself, also _very_ helpful if
> one does user management and authentifaction through LDAP, since this
> avoids most of the LDAP calls.

wow, impressive! Those two tricks greatly improved konqueror performances and 
now everything work fine. Thanks a lot!

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Cédric Lucantis