[NTLUG:Discuss] Wierd slowness problem with Suse 9.1

[Brian Kontrath]

Brian Kontrath wrote:

> Stuart Johnston wrote:
>
>> On 6:01:06 am 07/09/2004 Stephen Davidson <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca> 
>> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Brian Kontrath wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> Has anybody had problems with slowness while browsing the Internet
>>>> with Mozilla on Suse 9.1?  My other linux/unix boxes  seem to
>>>> browse the web just fine, but sometimes Suse just seems very slow.
>>>>
>>>> TIA,
>>>>
>>>> Brian Kontrath
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Hi Brian.
>>>
>>> Not really.  Some funkiness with Resolving DNS names sometimes, but
>>> that is it.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Some recent 2.6 based Linux distros can have DNS issues because of their
>> support for IPv6.  Generally, you'll just want to disable the IPv6 
>> module.
>>
>>
>> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/darin/archives/005753.html
>>
>>  
>>
> Thanks for the tip Stuart. I figured it was something with DNS, but I 
> wasn't sure what was causing the problem.  I also found a tip from 
> Suse's web site on how to stop ipv6 from autoloading.
>
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2003/10/90_mozilla_ipv6.html
>
> The problem is that Suse's advice didn't work. After I changed the 
> modprobe.conf configuration as Suse had suggested  and rebooted the 
> machine, lsmod shows ipv6 is still loading.  What am I doing wrong?
>

I just wanted to update everyone on this Mozilla ipv6 problem I  had 
with Suse 9.1 .  I found a way to stop the ipv6  module from loading.   
I  hid the ipv6 folder in /lib/modules by simply renaming it 
ipv6.notused.  After  rebooting, I used lsmod to see that the ipv6 
module was not loaded---it wasn't.  Now I know this is not the "correct" 
fix, but hey it works. Also, there is a HUGE improvement in the DNS 
search performance of Mozilla.    If I find a proper way of preventing 
the ipv6 module from loading, I'll let you all know.

regards,

Brian