On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:22 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Caolan McNamara wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:56 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > >> I've noticed two annoying issues in f8t3. > >> > >> 1. Applications seems to take quite a while to 'appear' on the desktop. > >> After clicking an application on the panel (gedit, gnome-terminal, etc) > >> it takes about 10 secs for them to appear on the desktop. > >> > >> 2. Evolution (particularly compose) seems to 'pause' for 10 seconds or > >> so every now and then and it becomes unresponsive. Makes typing emails > >> a pain in the bum (and I've seen it three times in this short email.) > >> > >> I'm going to bz these, but we wondering if others have seen this too. > > > > I've sometimes seen stuff like that happen with slightly busted > > networking or something, i.e. strace -f gedit from a terminal and see if > > If it's blocking significantly on something in /tmp/, that's serious. > Those are unix domain sockets, and their traffic is local to the box. > > > it is blocking a long time on /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX and compare startup > > time of apps before after after deleting /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX > > What I was wondering is what size* box is Rodd using, and might > Evolution 's pauses be while it's saving the work file? Seamonkey does > that on SL5 (Tikanga-clone), and loses keystrokes. It bugs me. There's always a pause just after sending an email (with something down in the status bar that is like saving file) When I'm in compose I don't see anything showing in the status bar, but it might be the compose window saving the message in case of a crash (so it can offer it up when you restart). > > CPU, RAM, disk disk speed as measured by "hdparm -t /dev/sda" Centrino 2.0GHz 1 Gig RAM [root@localhost ~]# hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 118 MB in 3.02 seconds = 39.09 MB/sec R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
