From kde Thu Oct 14 23:24:20 2004 From: J Hall Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:24:20 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] extremely long start up times Message-Id: <200410151224.21808.canllaith () yahoo ! co ! uk> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=109779629716546 At home, you would probably get given the same ip address from DHCP every time, since I imagine you would not have a terribly huge amount of computers on your network (certainly not hundreds). At school though, you might not. These applications do not 'phone home', but X is very network aware and can use your hostname/ipaddress to figure out what display to throw an application up on (It is built into X to be able to throw up an application on a machine across the room). It is a server/client architechture that was designed for networks. Is the ip address in your /etc/hosts the same as the one you get assigned at school, or are you sometimes assigned a different one? If so, this could cause applications to launch slowly as they try to resolve who you are. Do you have a line for loopbacking, for 127.0.0.1 ? This also can make X applications slow to launch, if you do not. On Friday 15 October 2004 07:09, Rikard Johnels wrote: >> On Thursday 14 October 2004 18.36, koffice@usmstudent.com wrote: >> > On Thursday 14 October 2004 08:55 am, Rikard Johnels wrote: >> > > On Thursday 14 October 2004 15.43, koffice@usmstudent.com wrote: >> > > > On Thursday 14 October 2004 07:53 am, Rikard Johnels wrote: >> > > > > On Thursday 14 October 2004 05.10, darren wrote: >> > > > > > I am running KDE 3.2 on Mandrake 10.0 on my laptop. Everything >> > > > > > runs normal while I'm at home. When I'm at school, however, >> > > > > > some apps take an extraordinary amount of time to start (like 5 >> > > > > > minutes). Once started, they seem to operate fine. Other >> > > > > > applications don't suffer this same fate. >> >> >> >> > > > My hostname returns: >> > > > [root@mandrake backdoc]# hostname >> > > > mandrake >> > > > >> > > > My /etc/hosts looks like: >> > > > >> > > > [root@mandrake backdoc]# cat /etc/hosts >> > > > >> > > > 192.168.1.100 mandrake >> > > > >> > > > grep'ing for my private IP looks like: >> > > > [root@mandrake backdoc]# ifconfig |grep 192 >> > > > inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 >> >> >> >> > Today, I can only give you my resolv.conf from home. >> > >> > [root@mandrake backdoc]# cat /etc/resolv.conf >> > search mydomain.com >> > nameserver 20X.15X.25X.5X >> > nameserver 20X.15X.25X.24X >> > >> > I don't see why OpenOffice Kate should care about my network status to >> > begin with. Do they "phone home"? I sure hope not. >> >> It still looks to me as if you are running a static IP. >> Do you really use a DHCP server at home? >> Are you sure you can reach the named DNS servers at school? >> >> The IP you get at school network, are they all ok? >> >> Kate doesn't "phone home" as far as i know. But it MIGHT (not saying it >> does) check for things on the computer. And doing so might rely on DNS >> lookups. Lots of KDE apps are "network aware" in the sense that they see >> network connections as valid ways to find whatever files you want to look >> at. >> >> Out of curiosity. Is the slow starts reproduceable at home if you >> disconnect the cable? ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.