Re: QShell performance

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you run the network verification component of the ARE (Administration 
Runtime Expert) tool this is the #1 thing it points out. If your system 
'doesn't know who it is' this is one of many things that just don't work 
like you want them too!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 7/13/2017 11:13 AM, Hiebert, Chris wrote:
> So all the trouble is because every time a shell starts, qshell runs gethostbyname() in order to load the environment variables "HOSTID" and "HOSTNAME".
>
> And if the DNS is not configured correctly, the call to gethostbyname() becomes very slow.
>
> And since some commands trigger a lot of new shells, the entire process crawls to a halt.
>
> Chris Hiebert
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
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