Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

[Alexander Kirillov]

> Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more
> frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.)  When it goes out,
> pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down.  It's gotten to
> where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su -
> to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back
> on.  This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and
> then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some
> message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts.  I
> checked it and /etc/hosts was correct.  Must just be a glitch with
> monodevelop.  My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so
> heavily on connecting to the internet?  My network was running just fine
> - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down,
> but everything inside my router should have been fine...

Do you have nscd running? Try to stop or restart it. It can be a real 
nuisance when internet connection goes down.
It's also a good idea to run dns server locally
if only to troubleshoot name resolution problems.
HTH,
Sasha

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