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NoOneImportant

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From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 178

Speeding up konqueror

Is there a way to make konqeuror load web pages as fast as firefox?

I already disabled IPv6 and allowed it to use the cache when possible.

My connection:

Download max: 310 kb/s
Upload max: 50kb/s

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Speeding up konqueror

You mentioned that you already disabled IPV6. I found that when I disable the module itself, it doesn't seem to help, but when I disable it from within KDE, it helps a lot. Also, it may be a placebo effect, but I pointed my DNS directly at a DNS server, and no longer getting it from DHCP, and that seems to help. On my current setup, Konqueror is running as well as Firefox.

NoOneImportant

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From: Deep Southern California

Registered: 2007-02-13

Posts: 178

Re: Speeding up konqueror

Do you have a tutorial for pointing my DNS directly to a DNS server?

I know of a tutorial, but that's only for ubuntu. (the conf files aren't in the same place)

Last edited by NoOneImportant (2007-03-14 03:06:57)

Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: Speeding up konqueror

vi /etc/resolv.conf

add the line nameserver 206.165.6.11 (or some other nameserver - that's one of global corssing's) to the top of the file

vi /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd

add the -R option to the existling line - this keeps dhcpcd from overwriting /etc/resolv.conf

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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Speeding up konqueror

You might also set up local dns caching, which speeds up surfing quite a bit - install dnsmasq, mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.dnsmasq, set resolv-file to /etc/resolv.conf.dnsmasq in /etc/dnsmasq.conf, add nameserver 127.0.0.1 to /etc/resolv.conf, execute /etc/rc.d/dnsmasq start, use dig from dnsutils package to confirm that it caches dns entries. Remember to add dnsmasq to /etc/rc.conf.

Last edited by lucke (2007-03-14 08:40:51)

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: Speeding up konqueror

^ I use named to achieve the same thing. Would you happen to know what would be the better way?

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: Speeding up konqueror

You mean bind?

AFAIK, dnsmasq is regarded as more lightweight (and additionally it can serve as a dhcp server - it's an especially good solution for a router serving a small home network). Other that resource usage, which shouldn't be an issue in either case, there obviously shouldn't be any difference in caching "performance" itself.