Re: QShell performance

[mlazarus <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx>]

Larry,

 The confusing part, unless you know what's going on behind the scenes 
in QShell, is that the functions being requested were all local, with no 
connection to the network.

 -mark

On 7/13/2017 11:48 AM, DrFranken wrote:
> 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
>
> www.Frankeni.com
> www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
> www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
>
> 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
> > Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the 
> > author and do not necessarily represent those of the company.