Gerald Wann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi- Many thanks to those who have commented thus far on the xemacs > slow load post. > > Being relatively new to Linux, i am still slogging thru the process > of analyzing why the load takes so long on my machine. > > In particular, i have just run an strace on the program as it loads, > and it gives me about 280k worth of text file on the system calls, > many of which are mysterious to a newbie like me. > > If find particularly interesting any lines in the file where a > timeout occurs. I have attached a snippet below, which is repeated > many times in the load process. Could anyone shed light on just what > is happening here? > > I will continue to try and understand & analyze the file in the meantime.
<snip> Hmm... - it appears that xemacs is attempting to do a dns lookup, and that's the connection that's taking so long. If you had a bo machine, I'd ask you what your /etc/host.conf said, (and make certain it had the line "order hosts,bind" at the top) but I know that in hamm the configuration for name lookups has changed a bit - does anyone know what you need to do on a hamm box to be certain that gethostbyname() doesn't produce a dns query if a given name is found in /etc/hosts? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
