Computer extremelly slow

[Bob Jonkman]

We had this discussion on the KWLUG Mailing List about two months 
ago[1].  In short, the answer was to reset all the Gnome configuration 
settings, as per this blog post:

  http://dt.in.th/2008-12-12.fasterrrr.html

The KWLUG consensus was that nuking all the Gnome settings was probably 
excessive, but no-one has done any testing to see what minimum amount of 
deletion still provides improvement.

--Bob.


  [1] 
http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/pipermail/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org/2009-October/002045.html


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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
>
> 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
>
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