[NTLUG:Discuss] Slow when Connected to Net

[Andrew Brown]

On Tuesday 15 June 2004 07:01 pm, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Brown" <dutch_brown at earthlink.net>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 6:16 PM
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Slow when Connected to Net
>
> > My system Red Hat 3.0 WS ES is slow when pulling up the net via a web
>
> browser.
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> > I am on a Toshiba Laptop with 512 SDRAM and 2.4GHz Processor. Plenty of
>
> juice
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> > and very fast when not online. In looking at my KDE System guard the
> > connection is really eating up my processor. Is there something I can do
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> to
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> > tune this a bit? It takes a full 30 seconds or so just to pull up my web
> > browser. This is a recent issue, has not always been this slow.
> >
> > ab
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> I am assuming you use DHCP to get an ip address, right?
>
> What does /etc/hosts look like?  How about /etc/resolv.conf?

The /etc/hosts references an Ip and a name of the server as localhosts; the 
/etc/resolv.conf shows 3 IP's assuming IP,  gateway and ??? What should i 
look for as a problem? Thanks for the help!