Computer extremelly slow

[G. Chiazzese]

Thank you for this tip. I had noticed some slow down in loading time of some
sites so figured I would give it a shot.

John aka IdleOne

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Andy Boersma <andy at boersma.ca> wrote:

> 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
>
> You’ll see a line commented out (If not add your own)… that says:
>
> “prepend domain-name-servers YOUR_DNS_IP_HERE;”
>
> I uncommented it and added openDNS servers and changes changed it to:
>
> prepend domain-name-servers 208.67.222.222,208.67.220.220,"YOUR_LOCAL_DNS";
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-ca-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Victor Mendonça
> Sent: December-07-09 6:22 PM
> To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
> Subject: Computer extremelly slow
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I had a problem with my computer becoming extremely slow about a month ago.
> After playing around with it I found that it seemed to be a problem with
> flash on Firefox, so I installed flash-block which made things a lot
> better.
>
>
> However I'm still getting a huge lag on my system with many other programs.
> Firefox is still slow, even opening a high resolution picture takes over 5
> seconds. I'm not sure what the problem is, and was wondering if anyone is
> having a similar problem.
>
> Here are my specs:
> Computer - Dell Inspiron 1300 - 9.04
> More system info - http://wazem.org/temp/forums/ubuntu/slow-pc/sysinfo
>
> Output of top when opening firefox and a high rez pic:
> http://wazem.org/temp/forums/ubuntu/slow-pc/
>
> Cheers!
>
> Victor Mendonça
> http://wazem.org/
>
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