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From: Danyelle Gragsone <ladynikon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 21:13:08
Message-Id: 59f9c5160511281306i17371172jf0a6063c0e58e822@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? by Michael Sullivan
1 to me.. linux in general has always ran slow if the net connection goes
2 out. It might be constantly trying to access the internet. Kinda like the
3 a cell phones battery dies alot faster when it cant connect to a tower. It
4 just keeps trying til it gets something or the phone dies.
5
6 On 11/28/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
7 >
8 > Our cable internet service goes out frequently (and probably even more
9 > frequently now that winter has come to OKlahoma.) When it goes out,
10 > pretty much everything on my Gentoo system slows down. It's gotten to
11 > where just to get an application (like gnumeric) to open I have to su -
12 > to root and shut down /etc/init.d/net.eth0 until the Internet comes back
13 > on. This morning the internet was out and I'd shut down net.eth0 and
14 > then tried to run monodevelop and it refused to start giving me some
15 > message about my PC's hostname not being set correctly in /etc/hosts. I
16 > checked it and /etc/hosts was correct. Must just be a glitch with
17 > monodevelop. My question is what is it about Gentoo that relies so
18 > heavily on connecting to the internet? My network was running just fine
19 > - just the connection between the cable modem and the internet was down,
20 > but everything inside my router should have been fine...
21 >
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