Re: [PLUG] Why does linux browse at one tenth the speed of Windows XP?

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

John Karr wrote:

> I have two primary machines, one runs Windows XP for things that don't 
> work on my Mandrake Linux Workstation. Since upgrading to Mandrake 
> version 10, web-browsing is extremely sluggish on the Linux Box (an 
> Athlon XP 1700).
>
> I have already tried tweaking hosts and resolv.conf, dig suggested the 
> computer was not resolving from the preferred server so commenting out 
> the backup servers sped performance a little, I also added every 
> common alias of the computer to the hosts entry for 127.0.0.1 as 
> suggested in a thread I found in the Mandrake Club.

This is a long shot.  What does the 'hosts' line in /etc/nsswitch.conf 
look like?  Here's mine:

#hosts:     db files nisplus nis dns
hosts:      files dns
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