Fdom speed (was Re: New home for the New FDOM)

[Joel Newkirk]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:16:10 +1000, "nick d." <blumph at gmail.com> wrote:
> Denis is right. It's trying to do a reverse DNS lookup. This plauges all
> incorrectly configured linux distros. At least every so often on any one
I
> use.
> 
> Gestures daemon does use a bit but only 5% I believe. Just check with
top.
> I
> turn it off anyway as I don't use it at the moment:
> 
> update-rc.d -f gesd-neo2 remove
> 
> I think...
> -Nick
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Leonti Bielski <prishelec at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I think something is lowing down FDOM, maybe this is gestures daemon
>> (someone at some point said it eats a lot of CPU power)?
>> And another thing - it takes years to login via ssh to Freerunner with
>> FDOM.
>> With other distributions I just enter 'ssh root at 192.168.0.202', press
>> Enter and immediately press Enter when it asks for password.
>> But with FDOM I actually have to wait till it gives me password promt.
>> This happens not only with the lates distribution but with all FDOM I
>> tried.
>> But I still use sometimes to check for new things available for
> Freerunner.
>> Leonti


To overcome the rDNS delay try adding "192.168.0.200 omhost" or something
similar to /etc/hosts.  So when an SSH connection comes in from
192.168.0.200 it doesn't drop to DNS lookup but defers to the /etc/hosts
file.