Terrible performance on D820 laptop if the network cable is unplugged

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:20:43 +0100
damian <misc at daminator.com> wrote:

> But it works fine when the home network is plugged in.

What is the contents of /etc/hosts  ?

cat /etc/hosts 

in a terminal to see. You might not have the loopback interface
configured, for some reason. You should have something like this:

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	yourhostname

### other stuff here

If your loopback ( 127.0.*.* ) is not right, the machine has an
identity crisis ;) This can slow it down...

-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>