[NTLUG:Discuss] Wierd slowness problem with Suse 9.1

[Stephen Davidson]

Brian Kontrath wrote:

> 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
>
Greetings.

I am having this issue as well, starting with SuSE 9.0, and would be 
interested to know what the correct way to solve it is.

Also, for some additional quirkiness, if you are trying to do a WHOIS on 
an IPv6 enabled DNS server (DFWAir.net apparenlty has one?), the 
firewall rules automatically drop all IPv6 responses ("nobody is using 
IPv6 yet").  For a non-sysadmin type like myself, that is really annoying.

So I would very much like to know the proper way to shut down ipv6 until 
it gets stablized by SuSE.

Regards,
Steve

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