I think you should try install atop. This tiny little program will tell you witch app makes the bottleneck. 2013/6/2 Frédéric Bron <frederic.bron@xxxxxxx>: >> Using Fedora 18, KDE 4.10.2 on x86_64 laptop with kernel 3.8.11-200 >> and nvidia proprietary drivers. >> >> I have two hard disk. One SSD with / and swap and one hybrid with /home. >> Recently, I remarked extremely long times (>60 s) to open some >> programs like firefox or dolphin, the latter being the most critical. >> I suspect disk access to slow down the machine as this happens when >> the processor is nearly idle. >> What can I check? Can I check the hard disks, how? Could it be something else? > > I experience this very very slow behaviour again today each time I > need to access the disk. However, I ran hdparm as suggested by Roberto > and found no difference in hard disk speed compared to normal > behaviour. But I have launched libreoffice from command line becase it > was to slow to open dolphin and I found some errors in the terminal > (see below). Could this be of any help to diagnose the problem? > > I now run kernel 3.9.4-200 > > Regards, > > Frédéric > > $ LibreOffice(10924)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: > ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: "Did not receive a reply. > Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, > the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout > expired, or the network connection was broken." > > LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le > module d'entrée / sortie : (translation: unable to create the > input/output module) > klauncher a retourné : Protocole « » inconnu. (translation: unkown " > " protocole) > " > LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le > module d'entrée / sortie : > klauncher a retourné : Protocole « » inconnu. > " > LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le > module d'entrée / sortie : > klauncher a retourné : Protocole « » inconnu. > " > LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le > module d'entrée / sortie : > klauncher a retourné : Protocole « » inconnu. > " > QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 > QPainter::save: Painter not active > QPainter::save: Painter not active > QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints > QPainter::setPen: Painter not active > QPainter::setPen: Painter not active > QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore > QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore > QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 > QPainter::save: Painter not active > QPainter::save: Painter not active > QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints > QPainter::setPen: Painter not active > QPainter::setPen: Painter not active > QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore > QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore > QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 > QPainter::save: Painter not active > QPainter::save: Painter not active > QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints > QPainter::setPen: Painter not active > QPainter::setPen: Painter not active > QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore > QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore > QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 > QPainter::save: Painter not active > QPainter::save: Painter not active > QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints > QPainter::setPen: Painter not active > QPainter::setPen: Painter not active > QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore > QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- PGP: 06853DF7 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
