[Bug 94048] Re: [feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration

[Conn]

Martin,

conn at inspiron:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       inspiron

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
conn at inspiron:~$ hostname
inspiron
conn at inspiron:~$ hostname -f
inspiron

I think this bug will be very difficult to diagnose, because a lot of
this is about perception. I noticed that the cache is used more
efficiently since changing the hosts file, meaning less delay/thrashing
of the disk to load multiple gnome-terminals, for example. But having
changed my hosts file back to defaults, it's just as fast...

I'd prefer a better way to benchmark the system rather than rely on
subjective measurements (I thought of strace -c, but it waits for you to
close the application and so wouldn't be a good benchmark, perhaps).

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[feisty] Slow gnome application startup due to /etc/hosts misconfiguration
https://launchpad.net/bugs/94048