[Bug 649809] Re: Meerkat (10.10) does not apply theme properly

2010-12-28 Thread damaan
I'm also affected by this bug. I have a Core i7, an SSD and an Nvidia Quadro FX 880M. Things looked good with the Noveau driver, but when switching to the non-free Nvidia driver I get the ugly non-themed look. The workaround in #68 seems to solve the problem, and the warning about multiple xsetting

[Bug 493156] Re: Please enable CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT

2010-06-06 Thread damaan
Please reconsider enabling CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT. Just because there is a slight penalty in some use cases doesn't motivate disabling it, when iotop and possibly other valuable tools are not working as they should. People that really need those extra milliseconds are usually better equipped when i

[Bug 94940] Re: mdns listed in nsswitch.conf causes excessive time for dns lookups

2010-04-21 Thread damaan
@Andreas: It seems that I _did_ have DNS problems. Disabling ipv6 certainly improved my overall situation (firefox, apt-get), but the test case was still running slowly. Then i tried switching to OpenDNS, which made your test case run very fast. So I guess my problem was the DNS relay in my D-Link

[Bug 94940] Re: mdns listed in nsswitch.conf causes excessive time for dns lookups

2010-04-14 Thread damaan
I installed Lucid beta2 and I'm experiencing slow networking, possibly related to DNS problems. I ran Andreas test3.c program attached above, it returns in little over ten seconds with the default nsswitch.conf setting. I expected an improvement when using "hosts: files dns", but it still took ten

[Bug 417757] Re: [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups

2009-11-08 Thread damaan
Thanks Jeroen. The pdns-recursor work around solved my issues with DNS- timeouts during package installation. -- [karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417757 You received this bug notific