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

[andy]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:06:44 -0500
Danyelle Gragsone <ladynikon@×××××.com> wrote:

i think there are running files that you dont need without a net-device, try to find these processes/services with 
"ps -aux" and "rc-update -s" and stop/kill them

greets

> to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes
> out.  It might be constantly trying to access the internet.  Kinda like the
> a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower.  It
> just keeps trying til it gets something or the phone dies.
>
> On 11/28/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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...
> >
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