slow login, app launching, etc

[Bagus]

Thanks Tony!

I'd been moving and offline for a while, but coming back to this email
inspired me to look at my resolve.conf one more time and try using names
instead of ip numbers. Upon reboot, everything is lickedy split fast.

y'all can check out my ancient java server now up at
http://www.bagus.org/

It's kind of a content management tool. Sign the guestbook! It's under
Community. There's some stuff about me up at
http://www.bagus.org/people/bagus/

Long live 2.2CAM-19980716-SNAP!

Bagus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Frank [mailto:tfrank at optushome.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 7:41 PM
> To: Bagus
> Cc: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: slow login, app launching, etc
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 08:25:20AM -0500, Bagus wrote:
> >
> >  Hi, is anyone able to help me problem solve on this? Is this the right
> > forum for this kind of question? If not, could someone please send me a
> > pointer to an organization that might be able to help. I have a
> small budget
> > to get this fixed if anyone wants it.
> >
> >  I'm running FreeBSD 2.2CAM-19980716-SNAP on bagus.org.
> >
> >  I've been running it for a few years. Recently, after normal
> performance,
> >  I've been experiencing extremely slow login prompt appearance,
> extremely
> >  slow application launching and what bugs me the most is the
> extremely slow
> >  response time of my java-web server. OTher functionality is
> ok. It serves
> >  html files just fine and also basic command line response is fine.
> >
> >  Anyone out there have any clues as to what it could be? I'm kind
> >  of guessing  it has something to do with some name resolution
> somewhere,
> >  but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Try checking your DNS setup; it may have changed?
>
> I often see this kind of behaviour when the host tries to perform
> reverse lookup on IP addresses.
> If DNS is configured incorrectly (eg non existant DNS server) the query
> times out (takes maybe 75s for default bind resolver) instead of returning
> an error or whatever.
>
> /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts are good places to start.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony