On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:54:29 -0600 Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more | frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out, | pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to | where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su | - to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes | back on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down | net.eth0 and then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start | giving me some message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly | in /etc/hosts. I checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just | be a glitch with monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo | that relies so heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was | running just fine | - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was | down, but everything inside my router should have been fine...
Hrm. It's nothing in the base system. I sometimes run my laptop without network, and I don't have issues. Chances are some app you're running is trying to do lots of DNS queries... Does 'top' tell you anything useful? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (The one that looks before leaping) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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