I just discovered something about AA sluggishness. I've posted it on
mandrakeuser (is there _anyone_ over there?).
Anyway, my post is at:
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/mub/viewtopic.php?topic=229&forum=5&0 . Go
take a look and send me your comments.
Hey, I just noticed that their damn thing chopped my post off. So
anyway, here it is in its entirety:
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Here's an interesting one. I got AA to work with RH7/XF403/KDE21 and now
with LM8 (slightly easier). I've always had a pretty bad performance
problem with it though: clicking on the Terminal icon for instance would
take nearly 20 seconds if I was lucky, and it was worst for stuff that
required more fonts, like Koqueror.
I finally found out what the problem was, and actually found it by
accident while trying to fix the startx script. I have a cable-modem for
internet access, with my network card configured through dhcp. My host
name is a bogus one that actually used to be valid back in the days when
justlinux dynamic dns was usable. If I do a hostname -f in the shell, it
will hang for nearly 20 seconds before it gives a host name lookup
failure. If, however, I edit /etc/hosts to contain my
dynamically-allocated IP address and my (bogus) machine name, then
ta-da, hostname -f worksand all of a sudden AA applications start just
as fast as every other!!
Does anyone else have this problem? Maybe it's worth mentioning to
Mandrake as a bug report? How should I do that?
