Re: [LAD] lo_server_thread_new pause

On 1 Jun 2008, at 10:32, James McDermott wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Dave Griffiths <dave@email-addr-hidden>
> wrote:
>> I think this is a network setup user error rather than anything
>> complicated, but anyone know why I get long pauses (5-10secs) when
>> calling lo_server_thread_new for the first time in a process?
>
> I ran into this problem recently too, and I'd love to hear a solution.
>
> There was discussion quite a while ago on the DSSI list about GUIs
> being very slow to appear, and lo_server_thread_new was *part* of the
> problem. There were suggestions of a network misconfiguration (eg
> mistakenly bypassing /etc/hosts and going to the nameserver) and a
> possible fix (commenting out the IPv6-style getnameinfo() call in
> liblo's src/server.c). This fix works for me, and that suggests that I
> have a network configuration problem too.

Do you have an entry like:
::1 localhost
in your /etc/hosts?

I seem to remember hearing about problems like this before - I think
there's a configure option to disable ipv6, but it seems like a bad
idea to not support it in the 21st century.

- Steve
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Received on Sun Jun 1 16:15:01 2008