Re: [SLUG] SuSE 10 web browsers slow

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 18:51:25 EST


On 12/12/05, Kwan Lowe <kwan@digitalhermit.com> wrote:
>
> > Had to do with pipelining and turning of IPV6 DNS query attempts... Once I
> > did that, the whole thing took off.
> >
> > Here is where I found it. Took a bit of digging, the real stuff is
> > down where you
> > do the about:config changes with the pipelining and IPV6 in FF.
> >
> > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/t335170.html
>
> Wow.
>
> For giggles I tried it on my FC4 machine with Firefox 1.5. It seemed a heckuva lot
> faster after making the change... To be absolutely certain, I set it back to false
> (enable IPV6), flushed caches, then tried again. Slow...
>
> Funny thing is that I never really noticed that the page loads were sub-optimal. I'm
> running local DNS so queries are usually pretty quick. I could imagine that the
> speedup would be quite impressive with an ISPs DNS.
>
> Awesome tip. :D
>

Yes, it made ALL the difference, it screams....

--
Chuck Hast
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."

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