Re: Network manager freezing on Ruby2.5 OpenSuSE 15.6

DCR>>>I'd like to know how Masaru new to check the size with ls rather than
to cat as normal to check the content. I suspect this may not be the
first issue with a large /etc/hosts.

Interesting a large ad blocking hosts causing the problem?
Hosts.txt aka Hosts is for ad blocking.

CWSIV

On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 7:21 PM David C Rankin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 6/27/26 8:54 PM, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
> > CS> # ls -l /etc/hosts
> > CS> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4769485 Jun  4 09:05 /etc/hosts
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > I think the hosts file is too large, which is causing the freeze.
>
> Holy Cow!
>
> $ ls -al /etc/hosts
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 674 Jun  9 04:25 /etc/hosts
>
>    I think Masaru has found a 4MB problem. I'll let Masaru advise on how
> to proceed, me, I'd just delete it and restart the network, but I'm
> old-school.
>
>    I'd like to know how Masaru new to check the size with ls rather than
> to cat as normal to check the content. I suspect this may not be the
> first issue with a large /etc/hosts.
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
>