Computer extremelly slow

[Andy Boersma]

To bad Vic,

it worked for me.

Other people told me that disabling ipV6 made a difference.

Did not help me.

Here are some posts

http://forums.opendns.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=5426
http://superuser.com/questions/67921/slow-website-loading-on-ubuntu-karmic
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1310366&page=1
this one has a bunch of different proposals

Andy


Victor Mendonça wrote:
> Hey Andy,
>
> I tried that and it did not make much difference, computer is still very slow! 
>
> I checked all my logs and I couldn't find anything. Even checked apt and aptitude logs for apps that were installed when I started having the problem and found that nothing was installed at that time.
>
> Any other ideas anyone?
>
> Victor Mendonça
> http://wazem.org/
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> Hi Victor,
>
> It's a bug in DNS and IPV4/6
>
> There are a couple of temporary fixes for that, I use the openDNS fix only
> uses 1 file and easy to undo later if you want.
>
> Edit the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
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> You’ll see a line commented out (If not add your own)
> that says:
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> “prepend domain-name-servers YOUR_DNS_IP_HERE;”
>
> I uncommented it and added openDNS servers and changes changed it to:
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> prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220,"YOUR_LOCAL_DNS";
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> YOUR_LOCAL_DNS = your LAN DNS server IP.
>
> Restart network or PC.
>
> I recommend that everybody does that, speeds all network access in Ubuntu.
>
> Andy
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