I'm running a Core2-duo desktop from 2008 with 3 gigs of ram. I want to run it into the ground, not throw it away while it's still functional. With Gentoo optimization, pluse using ICEWM, it's generally snappy. But there are a few web pages that throw the kitchen sink of 3rd-pary adservers+trackers. 178 unique servers for one web page will peg the load from the web browser to 150% of 1 cpu core. On a 2-core machine, that is bad. The browser is unresponsive for a few seconds at a time.
I'm building up a rather large hosts file, but the adservers have a gazillion subnames for each domain, in a deliberate attempt to bypass hosts files. It would be more effective block entire domains. Is there a lightweight DNS server, or some iptables trick, or whatever, that'll block specified domains? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
