MEGA gnome performance boost

hairy_Palms · Post by **hairy_Palms** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:42 pm

Hi,

For the past while I've been experiencing poor performance in GNOME; for example, opening a gnome terminal can take 5-10 seconds on a system that's been running for a while (and with another gnome terminal already open). Having done some research, I found this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...ighlight-.html

Checking my /etc/hosts, I saw:

Code:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 inspiron

...so I added my hostname to the first line:

Code:

127.0.0.1 localhost inspiron
127.0.1.1 inspiron

(Replace "inspiron" with your hostname)

you should notice a crazy performance boost

REASONS

Explanation why.

This is a fix for the new system that was started back in edgy where the host name was split off to 127.0.1.1, the problem is that some applications still look for the host name @ 127.0.0.1, so to keep those applications happy and running smoothly you simple need to add the host name where those applications expect it to be.

Hope that helps explain the reason understandably.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:13 pm

Thanks!!
The boost is astounding!

Post by **clem** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:11 pm

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-53 ... ight-.html

Post by **clem** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:14 pm

Hi,

Please publish a tutorial on this in the Community Portal.

http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... ity_Portal

Clem

hairy_Palms · Post by **hairy_Palms** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:04 pm

i cant figure out how to add a new page on the wiki....

gabhla · Post by **gabhla** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:37 am

Saw this yesterday in the Ubuntu forums and tried it out. While it's beyond me why, it does speed things up.

Post by **clem** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:04 am

http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... /etc/hosts

hairy_Palms · Post by **hairy_Palms** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:16 am

thhanks husse for the pm and thanks clem for putting up the page