-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Folks, > I just this question in the abiword bugzilla about dashboard. > > Any clues? > > Thanks! > > > Martin > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > It appears that the dashboard uses tcp sockets and quite regularly. With a > misconfigured firewall this can cause serious slow downs in Abiword as the > input > is filtered by the kernel. Iptables rules which look like the following are > doing the damage: > > iptables -P INPUT DROP > > If the administrator or user does not remember to enable INPUT on the > loopback > interface after such a rule. Therefore, enabling INPUT on the loopback > interface such as like: > > iptables -A INPUT -i lo -p all -j ACCEPT > > will resolve this issue. As will removing the dashboard. > > Here's the question though: Why does the dashboard use TCP sockets > instead of > UNIX sockets? Using UNIX sockets would resolve this issue even with a > misguided > firewall configuration. > > regards > > Alastair > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dashboard-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers > I believe it uses them because of the ability to use beagle across a network. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)
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