Konqueror very slow

[Nigel Henry]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 18:54, John wrote:
> Thanks but still no luck.
> Changing the mtu had no effect. export KDE_NO_IPV6=1 noticabley slowed down
> the lookup, changed the way the tiscali page loaded but was still very very
> slow. If I then use shift F5 the load is much the same as it was before.
> I have restored firfox to it's former glory and it has the same problems.
> It was hanging on start up following a symbolic link to a java library
> installed by following the instructions on their web site.
> I have one other symptom to add if I manually check for emails with Kmail
> the access light on the router blinks several times about 4 secs apart for
> each address checked. Normally 4 addresses usually  take that amount of
> time in total. That is why I thought that it was a line fault.
> Also I have had this sort of thing before but a reboot has sorted it out. I
> believe that it has only occurred following my 14 year olds use of the
> computer - he may have an interest in certain aspects of Brit. Spears
> anatomy etc. I'm sure that he hasn't changed settings but have wondered
> about hacking etc. He did use the machine before this particular problem
> cropped up.
>
> Regards
> John
>
> On Wednesday 07 December 2005 14:16, Philip Rodrigues wrote:
> > John wrote:
> > > Hello All
> > > My machine has started downloading web pages very slowly. A page like
> > > tiscali.co.uk takes 2 to 3 mins. KMail also takes about 2 mins to check
> >
> > For the web problems, try loading pages in firefox or some other browser.
> > Also, try setting the environment variable KDE_NO_IPV6=1 .
> >
> > Regards,
> > Philip

This is just a thought as you mentioned your son had had his hands on the 
buttons. After my son had visited me, I found a definately unwanted URL on my 
list, and about that time I had a lot of unexplained incoming traffic, 
verified by running, netstat -a , as root. which showed an unknown foreign 
address. Rebooting got rid of the foreign address, which thankfully has not 
come back, and I removed the dodgy URL references. I'd suggest using Ksim, 
KDE's monitor for network traffic, cpu useage, etc. After KDE on Fedora 
Core !, this is now a panel extension, and added to the desktop with, right 
click on the panel,add, panel, ksim. This should show you if you have unusual 
amounts of incoming or outgoing traffic that may be tying up bandwidth. Also 
it's probably worth checking that the firewall is secure and stealthed. You 
can run a firewall check using Shields Up, at, http://www.grc.com. I presume 
your router has a built in firewall, but it's worth setting up Ksim, just to 
see whats going on traffic wise. This may be nothing to do with your problem, 
but perhaps worth a look. Nigel.
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