Browsing Troubles: Slow picture loading, occasional problems with name resolution
 

I am in a continual effort to migrate to linux platform, like most, from windows. The greatest obsticle that keeps me from using linux non-stop is slow browsing. I am a broadband junkie and rely on fast service to keep up with me when I've got something in mind. I recently installed Mandrake 9.2 on both of my 'work' boxes, and I am loving KDevelop for writing C++. HOWEVER when I want to look something up or grab some other source code, I have to wait...and wait...

I've tried with Mozilla, Galeon, Konqueror, and Firefox - all seem to hang a bit - especially with loading pictures. The picture thing wouldn't be so bad, but the browsers all seem to tie up the X service if they're not allowed to load a page; they don't seem to want to move on to another link...and it's definitely viable to overload X by just trying to browse through pages.

Occasionally, even starting from scratch, the browsers won't resolve a name without stopping-halfway through the point when the page should have been loaded-and then prompting for the page to reload.

Here's where I'm at:

-I am running off a cable broadband modem into a freesco firewall box (had the same problems with no firewall and again with an IPCop box), then into my home lan.

-After reading through the forums, set my /etc/resolv.conf with a my ISP's DNS IPs-this seems to help a bit with name resolution, but there are still some problems in that area.

-Have stripped down to using IceWM and enlightenment.

-Windows still screams through browsing compared to Linux.

-Argh.

My primary system:

Nvidia Geforce 2 (32MB ) & 3dfx Voodoo3 (16 MB)
Sony Triniton monitors
iwill K266 MB


I have come up with little to nothing on searches and was wondering if it was just a linux thing. Then I saw the linux boxes at the university running red hat (which was even slower on my boxes) and browsing faster than windows does on my box. Did I mention Argh?

I have had similar issues on my Mandrake 9 HP laptop. However, on my Dell desktop, running the same distro, I had no problems at all. Identical install and everything.

Not sure what causes it, but I too am annoyed.

Hmm.. Are you sure your network cards are working in full-duplex mode? I experienced a problem like that, and finally found that my network card was auto-negotiating to 100TX- HALF DUPLEX! That slowed web browsing to a crawl, but still let large downloads get big transfer rates.

the command mii-tool as root should tell you what you're running at.

--Shade

I will have to look into that. Totally slipped my mind. Thanks.

Installed Libranet (Debian) now I'm up to 4 OSes on one computer. Heh.
It moves faster than mandrake, but still not as fast as MS running IE or Moz. Firefox.
Smeg! I don't want Gates to win on this!

Oh- also found the post :http://linuxquestions.org/questions/...low+rowser+DNS
right after I posted the first cry for help and modified my nsswitch.conf file. It helped, but again, still not as fast as it should be.

oh-when I run mii-tool it says:

'SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth0' failed: Operation not supported
no MII interfaces found'

ifconfig -a:
'eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C5:3C:B3:AA
inet addr:192.168.1.6 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2837 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:49 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1076792 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:380274 (371.3 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xe000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:336 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:16800 (16.4 KiB) TX bytes:16800 (16.4 KiB)'

so that's what that's doing...

Khz,

Have you managed to solve this problem? I am having the exactly same issues here...

Thanks,

Mark

do you have
 

more thanone nic in your computer?

That's what was causing the holdup on my laptop.

It's really weird when it happens, http is dog slow, but ftp is lightning fast.

hth

no, unfortunately my desktop (a dell gx260) has only one nic, a Intel pro/1000, on-board...

some of this this sounds possibly like the ipv6 kernel module causing dns troubles
put in /etc/modprobe.conf
alias net-pf-10 off
reboot
and see if that helps

Just installed Mandrake 10.0 - almost no problems (except the occasional conflict with sound cards). Browsing is acceptably fast, though occasionally needs a kick in the pants to get moving to a link.

dell optiplex gx260s
 

We have these here where I work, and we had a bugger of a time getting them to work in DOS (for imaging.)

One of the problems we discovered was we had to have the latest driver from Intel (and not Dell) and also that we had to specify and not leave it to autonegotiation about the line speed.

For instance, since a majority of our network jacks are only 100MBs, we specified that as the speed. We only have a few jacks (and they are at a remote site) with 1.0 GBs jacks. Turns out, the autonegotiation was what was killing it for us in DOS land. Not sure where you'd go about specifying your line speed for the Nic in your distro, but you might want to check it out.

HTH,

Kyle

I had the same problem...but found a way out
 

I was having the same slow resolution problem on a box I recently loaded with SuSe 9.1
It turned out that changing the first line of resolv.conf from:

domain home.mudslingers.com

to:

domain local

did the trick entirely.

Hope that helps.