H> running debian unstable w/ gnome gui recently
H> (past few weeks) upgraded gnome apps started taking
H> 5 to 10 seconds to crank up. Logging onto X via
H> gnome takes close to a minute for my desktop to
H> come up. The network gets beat on in the process
H> (watching idiot lights on my cable modem).
Looks like DNS problems. Perhaps you're firewalling UDP, and every
DNS lookup has to wait for the UDP query to timeout and the resolver
to fall back to TCP?
Try to run
tcpdump -n -s 128 port 53
while starting a Gnome client.
Juliusz
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