Re: DNS lookups eating CPU time

yuri mironoff (yuri@buster.rgti.com)
Tue, 14 Oct 1997 10:55:05 -0400 (EDT)


I'll second that. I also get multiple instances of something called
"dns helper" hanging around even after netscape exits. (Some of them
cant be killed BTW)

Regards,

Y.

On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 hixson@frozenwave.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> I'm just curious as to why CPU load will shoot up while Netscape
> looks up a hostname. The instant the name gets resolved the CPU usage
> drops back down.
> This doesn't seem to happen with nslookup, ftp, or anything else.
> Just curious.
> Thanks,
> -M@
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