On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 08:09:01PM +0100, Ziga Mahkovec wrote: > > - What does GNOME login look like? > If I parse up to the point where gnome-panel is running and the system > is 90% idle: > http://www.klika.si/ziga/bootchart/bootchart-login.png One thing that really sticks out in this one for me is rhn-applet-gui. That thing is just huge. I booted my machine an hour ago, and here's what top has to say about it.. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3370 davej 26 10 198m 26m 182m S 0.0 1.3 0:01.50 rhn-applet-gui ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WOW. -------------------' It's not even _doing_ anything right now. (digs out strace). Ugh.. It's stuck in a loop polling a socket. ioctl(14, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 poll([{fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN}, {fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=6, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 8, 99) = 0 This thing really needs to go to sleep more often. Ugh, it got worse.. 3370 davej 26 10 200m 28m 185m S 0.0 1.4 0:02.10 rhn-applet-gui Dave
