Performance tip for Edgy and Feisty users

I’ve been following a thread in the forums that refers to a very simple change in Ubuntu that actually is improving the responsiveness of many Edgy and Feisty users (including me).
I have no idea why this is, or if it has any side effects, to be careful.

Edit your “/etc/hosts” file:
$ sudo gedit /etc/hosts

You should see something like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 martin-laptop
(and if your in Feisty, some lines about IPV6

Now, add the following:

127.0.0.1 localhost martin-laptop 127.0.1.1 martin-laptop
(Replace “martin-laptop” with your hostname)

Save. Should work instantly, or sometimes on reboot.

The forum thread is: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=388765.

Martin Albisetti

March 20, 2007

Ubuntu

12 responses to “Performance tip for Edgy and Feisty users”

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sam

March 21, 2007 at 11:33 am

also see the bug report
https://launchpad.net/bugs/94048

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March 21, 2007 at 11:56 am

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Ubuntu Tutorials

March 21, 2007 at 5:34 pm

thanks for the tip. I’ll report on what I notice on my machines. hopefully it’ll be significant.

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Eddie Colon

March 21, 2007 at 5:38 pm

Martin… before I try this, What exactly does it do ? And, does it matter that I am using Kubuntu ? or not ?

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beuno

March 21, 2007 at 5:48 pm

Eddie, I don’t think it matters what flavour of Ubuntu you are using.
I’m not 100% sure of what it does, but the forum thread has some indications: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=388765

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sam

March 21, 2007 at 8:15 pm

Also, don’t forget to use gksudo when running gedit.

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kobewan

March 21, 2007 at 9:27 pm

I have those lines on IPv6 with Edgy as well. Don’t know if this tip actually helped me or not, but I figure that it can’t hurt.

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mauro

March 23, 2007 at 1:02 am

im still using dapper drake and my /etc/hosts looks exactly as you showed after being modified (even with the ipv6 lines.)
and i always had the same performance..

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beuno

March 23, 2007 at 2:58 am

This only applies for edgy and feisty, which is where this change was introduced.

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