Re: Network manager freezing on Ruby2.5 OpenSuSE 15.6

"Carlos E. R." <[email protected]> Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:27:39 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.suse.general
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On 2026-06-28 08:55, Masaru Nomiya wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In the Message;
> 
>    Subject    : Re: Network manager freezing on Ruby2.5 OpenSuSE 15.6
>    Message-ID : <CAHeBFz1ShjLDTEkG73=CvsN4uWBxm_mHfcmJJMWGAH49nxG4iQ@mail.gmail.com>
>    Date & Time: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:45:13 -0700
> 
> [CS] == Carl Spitzer <[email protected]> has written:
> 
> CS>  DCR>>>I'd like to know how Masaru new to check the size with ls
> CS>  rather than to cat as normal to check the content. I suspect this
> CS>  may not be the first issue with a large /etc/hosts.
> 
> CS>  Interesting a large ad blocking hosts causing the problem?
> CS>  Hosts.txt aka Hosts is for ad blocking.
> 
> So this is it!
> 
> DucksDuckGo had actually shown me this old one, too;
> 
> 	    Just a note to close this thread. YaST Network Setting
> 	    initialization running slow is a know and confirmed
> 	    "behaviour", "feature" or "bug". It occurs because the
> 	    /etc/hosts file is parsed and loaded as part of Network
> 	    Setting initialization. The larger the /etc/hosts file,
> 	    the longer Network Settings initialization takes and seems
> 	    to be nlog(n) for Big O fans. Upshot is, if you are using
> 	    hosts to block domains then you will notice the slow
> 	    initialization in Network Settings, so just wait.

You could put the list in dnsmasq, perhaps.

I suspect the problem is that whatever script adds entries to hosts, 
does not purge it of old entries.


-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.

   (from openSUSE 16.0 (Laicolasse))

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