extremely long start up times

[J Hall]

At home, you would probably get given the same ip address from DHCP every 
time, since I imagine you would not have a terribly huge amount of computers 
on your network (certainly not hundreds). At school though, you might not. 
These applications do not 'phone home', but X is very network aware and can 
use your hostname/ipaddress to figure out what display to throw an 
application up on (It is built into X to be able to throw up an application 
on a machine across the room). It is a server/client architechture that was 
designed for networks.

Is the ip address in your /etc/hosts the same as the one you get assigned at 
school, or are you sometimes assigned a different one? If so, this could 
cause applications to launch slowly as they try to resolve who you are. Do 
you have a line for loopbacking, for 127.0.0.1 ? This also can make X 
applications slow to launch, if you do not. 


On Friday 15 October 2004 07:09, Rikard Johnels wrote:
>> On Thursday 14 October 2004 18.36, koffice at usmstudent.com wrote:
>> > On Thursday 14 October 2004 08:55 am, Rikard Johnels wrote:
>> > > On Thursday 14 October 2004 15.43, koffice at usmstudent.com wrote:
>> > > > On Thursday 14 October 2004 07:53 am, Rikard Johnels wrote:
>> > > > > On Thursday 14 October 2004 05.10, darren wrote:
>> > > > > > I am running KDE 3.2 on Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop.  Everything
>> > > > > > runs normal while I'm at home.  When I'm at school, however,
>> > > > > > some apps take an extraordinary amount of time to start (like 5
>> > > > > > minutes).  Once started, they seem to operate fine.  Other
>> > > > > > applications don't suffer this same fate.
>>
>> <lots of lines cut>
>>
>> > > > My hostname returns:
>> > > >  [root at mandrake backdoc]# hostname
>> > > >  mandrake
>> > > >
>> > > > My /etc/hosts looks like:
>> > > >
>> > > >  [root at mandrake backdoc]# cat /etc/hosts
>> > > >  <snipage>
>> > > >  192.168.1.100           mandrake
>> > > >
>> > > > grep'ing for my private IP looks like:
>> > > >  [root at mandrake backdoc]# ifconfig |grep 192
>> > > >   inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>
>> <More cut>
>>
>> > Today, I can only give you my resolv.conf from home.
>> >
>> > [root at mandrake backdoc]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
>> > search mydomain.com
>> > nameserver 20X.15X.25X.5X
>> > nameserver 20X.15X.25X.24X
>> >
>> > I don't see why OpenOffice Kate should care about my network status to
>> > begin with.  Do they "phone home"?  I sure hope not.
>>
>> It still looks to me as if you are running a static IP.
>> Do you really use a DHCP server at home?
>> Are you sure you can reach the named DNS servers at school?
>>
>> The IP you get at school network, are they all ok?
>>
>> Kate doesn't "phone home" as far as i know. But it MIGHT (not saying it
>> does) check for things on the computer. And doing so might rely on DNS
>> lookups. Lots of KDE apps are "network aware" in the sense that they see
>> network connections as valid ways to find whatever files you want to look
>> at.
>>
>> Out of curiosity. Is the slow starts reproduceable at home if you
>> disconnect the cable?
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