Feisty Install: slow to bring up apps

[Brian Fahrlander]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:44:01 -0500
> Brian Fahrlander <brian at fahrlander.net> wrote:
> 
>>  Almost everything is slow; Firefox, Thunderbird, about the only 
>> thing that seems the same is UnrealTournament and trivial apps like 
>> desktop games and such.
>>
>>      Anyone got a clue? [I'm not even sure how to research this one...]
> 
> Shot in the dark...
> 
> Check your loopback interface in /etc/network/interfaces. Should be
> something like
> 
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
> 
> Also /etc/hosts for your machine: something like
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost yourhostname
> 
> I've heard of people having extreme slowdowns when the loopback is
> misconfigured - so this is just a guess, really.

     Wow; great guess; I'm not sure it changes anything yet, but the 
default install gave me:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       ws01.altavista.local    ws01

     In /etc/hosts.  Kinda strange; I normally have 
"localhost.localdomain" and "localhost" on 127.0.0.1, and then the 
eth0's address for my own workstation name.  But I'll give this a try. 
It's funny how easy it is to overlook such things, ya know?

     Thanks a bunch!
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