Sounds like a resolver issue.
Most applications, including X need to be able to resolv hostnames to IP
addresses. This even if it's only locally.
If X cannot determine a local IP then X will not come up right away. Rather
the applications will hang up until they time out, then things will run
until you hit the next application.
I'll also bet that you get a similiar pause during the boot when the mail
daemons are initialized.
Check your settings, something is wrong. Your system doesn't know it's own
name!
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Currey
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 10:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow
It started yesterday, after there was a power failure.
Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4 ms
Barracuda drives. The video is a Creative Labs Savage4 with 32 mb.
Nooooooooo, it can't be slow!!! Without running X its horribly slow. With
X, its unbelievably slow.
Without X, if I bring up pine, its 2 MINUTES for the screen to come up!!!
startx takes 10 MINUTES to come up. The tips wizard is 15 MINUTES later.
The drives are barely being hit. The NIC isn't flashing. There are no
error messages on the screens except the 2nd NIC failing at boot (which I
expect, until I connect it to the cable modem, in the meantime, its just a
station on my internal home LAN). It seems like pine runs at normal speed
(comparatively) once its up. pico seems to come up fine by itself.
Am I at another reload? Any suggestions how to diagnose? I shut it down,
powered back up, and when that didn't fix it, I rebooted and ran full tests
on the drives, checked the BIOS setup. Then I tried windoze 98 and it runs
fine. Shutdown is quick, too, for some reason...
Help!
BobC
