[SC.LUG] Mandrake 10.1 incredibly slow browsing on a small number of sites

[David Holden]

On Monday 27 Dec 2004 14:32, Robert Marshall wrote:
> Apologies to those who follow alt.os.linux.mandrake but we seem to have
> run out of ideas there and I've still got the problem So as a late
> Christmas brain teaser I present the following!
>
> I upgraded to mdk 10.1 (community and then installed lots of updated
> packages) at the beginning of December.  I'm finding that some pages load
> almost unbelievably slowly for instance
>
> http://www.cclonline.com/termsconditions.asp
>
> takes 15 minutes to appear - I've tried a number of browsers and
> they're the same.
>
> http://www.computerpeople.co.uk/content_static/home.asp
>
> is another culprit. They're both asp's but I'm seeing some AS pages
> download fine. I've googled in vain and I've booted MandrakeMove which
> doesn't have this problem, so I assume it's something I've done - or
> failed to do! I'm running squid but wouldn't a problem there slow
> everything down? I've stopped squid and the associated proxy firewall
> rules and there's still no improvement
>
> /etc/hosts looks ok as does /etc/resolv.conf
>
> traceroute looks ok, ipv6 is disabled (reputedly a cause of slowness)
>
> I ran strace with wget and each read appears to take about 5 seconds.
>
>   0.000059 select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {900, 0}) = 1 (in [3], left {895,
> 286000}) 4.743655 read(3, "\r\n      </tr>\r\n      <tr>\r\n     "...,
> 16384) = 232 0.040045 write(4, "\r\n      </tr>\r\n      <tr>\r\n     "...,
> 232) = 232 0.044950 gettimeofday({1103754737, 511467}, NULL) = 0
>   0.049571 select(4, [3], NULL, NULL, {900, 0}) = 1 (in [3], left {895,
> 142000}) 4.856806 read(3, "      <td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n        <"..., 16384) =
> 232 0.000090 write(4, "      <td>&nbsp;</td>\r\n        <"..., 232) = 232
>
>
> As the same machine worked ok with 9.2 (my 10.1 was a fresh installation
> so I can still boot that) and MandrakeMove - running off a cd is also
> fine. I'm completed bemused and would welcome any helpful brainwaves!
> Any other avenues I could explore? I have two eth cards but still have the
> problem when I take down eth1. Note that 99% of sites work fine, its just
> a very few that are unusable
>
> Robert

 Well if wget is having problems I suspect it is not browser related however 
you could try saving the page and seeing if it reads in locally ok, and try 
turning off some browser features (images/javascript etc)

You could try "links".

dave.




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