[X-Newbies] slow warm ups

[Daniel Read]

On 02/02/2005, at 11:57 AM, John Mee wrote:

> Just cleared up the problem on my machine, it seems to be network 
> related. I went to system prefs. and chose network then on the second 
> drop down menu "Show:" I chose network port configurations and 
> unchecked everything. Then I restarted and the problem was gone. After 
> re-setting my network port config. which on my machine is just a check 
> for built in ethernet as we have a router that does the sharing of DSL 
> here, I tried another restart and all is well.
>
>>
>> To be clearer, it loads the date/time - battery status - location - 
>> sound, bluetooth, airport all one at a time on a transparent 
>> background and then the finder bar pops in. The dock loads at roughly 
>> the same time and the desktop icons soon after. I can't trace this to 
>> anything that is set to run on start up and I haven't got the airport 
>> or bluetooth ports switched on so the system shouldn't be waiting for 
>> network connections.

Thanks Jon! Disabling the ethernet port, rebooting and then re-enabling 
it has fixed the problem for me as well. I can't believe I've put up 
with such a slow boot for months.

Now I'm wondering what network preferences dumps when a port is 
disabled. My first thought was that it could trash any saved locations 
and thus stop looking for them when set to automatic. This somewhat 
buggy reasoning made sense to me until I checked under the 'location:' 
drop down in network preferences and all my saved locations where still 
present.

One of the similarities in our systems is that we share a connection 
through a router. Perhaps the problem is related to the way the router 
provides the IP addresses and subnet masks. Disabling the ethernet port 
could clear a list or cache somewhere.

Daniel Read
Web Producer
Hillcode