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

[Shawn Singh]

I've experienced a few outages (mainly due to inclement weather), but not seen my Gentoo system slow down at all; however, I have seen my Fedora Core 4 and Mandrake 9.2 boxes slow down when their connection to the Internet is lost, but that is normally due to some service / app that relies on Internet connectivity.

I'd check to see what services  and applications are running and determine which of them may be causing the problem.

On 11/28/05, Nick Rout < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:43:01 +0000
Ognjen Bezanov wrote:

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> I have a gentoo system (Actually I have four of them) and they dont
> experience a slowdown when my internet connection goes down (which it
> invariably does because my ISP reboots its servers every 28 days as a
> policy, thereby disconnecting me ). Chances are its a particular program
> thats trying to connect to the net and failing, thereby using cycles in
> new attempts.
>
> While we are at it, does there exist a program that can monitor my
> internet connection and run a script if the net is down (like a restart
> script)? I dont want to have to come home and ssh in to restart
> everytime my ISP reboots its M$ Servers.

many programs do a dns lookup on connection, to see who is trying to
connect. It should be managed on your lan with /etc/hosts if you have it
sorted properly.

can you ping via name to other machines on your lan?

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