PPP slows down the system

[Emil Khatib]

Hey! this seems to work properly. At least by the moment. It works
even better than when i was disconnected :P. Thanks a lot

On 4/17/05, Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:04:11PM +0200, Emil Khatib wrote:
> > Hi everybody.
> > I'm using a 56k connection to access the Internet. I'm using user PPP,
> > and everytime I dial up, everything works too slow. At least X works
> > quite bad (and so KDE). When I try "startx", it freezes for a few
> > seconds and then it starts and takes a long time to load KDE. Also,
> > the applications in KDE start very slowly (when they start).
> 
> KDE does DNS lookups like crazy. Make sure you've got an entry in
> /etc/hosts for the output of hostname(1), and see whether that makes a
> difference.
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