Webpage Browsing DNS lookup SLOW (ongoing Suse prob)

fragos · 07-16-2005, 08:37 PM

bigchris,

I'm sure your observations are accurate. Konqueror being slower than firefox and mozilla is telling. It may not be getting the development focus of firefox. I wish I could be more helpful but despite over 40 years in software and networking, I'm still a relative Linux newbie. My curiosity is up and I will be following this thread with much interest. I look forward to learning from your problem resolution.

bigchris · 07-16-2005, 09:29 PM

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Originally posted by ng0g
Making the changes to FF and Mozilla fixed any speed problems with them for me. But no matter what changes I have made Konqueror is really, really, slow. So slow that occasionally I am fooled into thinking it is hung.

My ping times for both url and ip are fine. My isp just cranked the speed up, I am close to 5mb per second now. Mozilla and FF find, and open web pages quickly. Konqueror is so slow that it is nearly unusable. I am continuing to experiment with Konqueror and to comb the web for a solution. I am finding that a lot of folks seem to have this same problem. Many seem to have just given up on Konqueror. I want all 3 browsers, (mozilla, FF, and Konqueror) as I keep all 3 set up differently for different tasks.

I added the following lines to /etc/modprobe.conf.local and now Konqueror flies too!
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Try it, you'll love it!

bigchris · 07-17-2005, 10:54 PM

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Originally posted by fragos
bigchris,

I'm sure your observations are accurate. Konqueror being slower than firefox and mozilla is telling. It may not be getting the development focus of firefox. I wish I could be more helpful but despite over 40 years in software and networking, I'm still a relative Linux newbie. My curiosity is up and I will be following this thread with much interest. I look forward to learning from your problem resolution.

I got flummoxed by installing changes on modprobe.conf and FF at the same time. Initially everthing looked great after reboot and my attention and usage focused on FF. Over the next few days modprobe.conf got overwritten (as you pointed out) so the next time I tried Konqueror, ipv6 was re-enabled for it but still blocked within FF - so FF looked much faster. Adding the changes to modprobe.conf.local as you suggested made the correction permanent for both browsers.

The only remaining question in my mind is why do the 9.3 release pages say ipv6 is disabled when it is in fact enabled? Left hand not talking to the right hand I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for the help!

rocksniffer · 07-18-2005, 07:45 AM

See this thread.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=ipv6

69_rs_ss · 07-18-2005, 09:30 AM

Has anyone checked the /etc/resolv.conf file to make sure the name servers listed are the ISP DNS servers and not the IP of the router. That can slow down name resolution a lot.

bigchris · 07-18-2005, 09:10 PM

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Originally posted by rocksniffer
See this thread.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...highlight=ipv6

Cute! You're crosslinking to that thread and they have already crosslinked to this thread!!!

In that thread all browsers were slow and it turned out to be a DNS server address problem.

In this thread two out of three browsers work okay with IPV6 disabled, but Konqueror is still slow. The trick is IPV6 needs to be disabled in /etc/modprobe.conf.local NOT /etc/modprobe.conf

adrianmak · 08-16-2005, 11:11 PM

How do I stop ipv6 under redhat enterprise linux 4 ?