Nautilus opens very slowly when downloading large ports

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 01:01 -0700, Jon Drews wrote:
> FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 20
> gnometerminal-2.8.0_2
> nautilus2-2.8.2_1
> 
> 
> Hi:
> 
>  I want to thank you folks for the great job that you have done on
> Gnome 2.8.1. I just installed it tonight from the gnome2-lite port.
>  I do have a slight problem. When I was downloading Gimp 
> gnometerminal or Nautilus took a long time to open. As soon as the
> download was over, Nautilus and all the gnometerminals I had clicked
> on opened right away. I am doing these large downloads over a 56k
> modem, so the transfer rates are slow. At any rate, is there any
> change I can make in the in the Gnome Control Center or elsewhere so
> that Nautilus opens quicker during downloads? This may be a fluke
> problem on my computer only but I thought I would ask.

I'm not sure what could be causing this.  I don't see this problem
myself, but I don't use a modem.  You might try binding your hostname to
127.0.0.1 (or some other, faster interface), and see if that helps.  See
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20 for more details.

Joe

>  
> 
>                                                   Thanks very much,
> 
>                                                   Jonathan
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