 | | | new machine - problems with gaim | new machine - problems with gaim 2005-01-05 - By Rick Stevens
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Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> Well, here I am writing from my son's new machine. Turned out the
> 128MB it came with wasn't enough memory to open Open Office so I
> bought an additional 256MB. However we're still having problems. He
> uses gaim to chat with his friends, but when we start it up there is a
> 3-4 minute lag before the program will start accept text. I type into
> it and it just sits for 3 minutes before it works. Even after it
> works it will once in awhile have these 3 minute lags again.
>
> At first I thought it might be the wireless networking having
> trouble but the whole time gaim isn't working I can browse the web
> just fine.
>
> I've shut off iptables using chkconfig --del.
>
> Any ideas what's causing this? I don't know where to look. There
> are no special messages in dmesg.
>
> In /var/log/messages I do see some strangeness:
>
> Jan 4 18:26:04 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
> Jan 4 18:26:04 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Jan 4 18:26:23 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> Jan 4 18:26:23 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Jan 4 18:26:27 Christmas dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
> Jan 4 18:26:27 Christmas dhclient: No working leases in persistent
> database - sleeping.
> Jan 4 18:28:47 Christmas su(pam_unix)[3284]: session opened for user
> root by matt(uid=500)
> Jan 4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> Jan 4 18:30:04 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
> Jan 4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
> Jan 4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to
> 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18
> Jan 4 18:30:12 Christmas dhclient: send_packet: Network is down
>
> This sort of stuff is repeating a lot.
It sure looks like the DHCP server is cycling a lot. Are you using
your ISP's DHCP or one on your local access point/switch/router?
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