----- Original Message ----- From: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <gnome-list-request@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 05:21 Subject: Re: Gnome very slow > Let me preface this by saying this is the first time or many that the > desktop has reacted normally or somewhat normally. I am aware that you cant > tell anything from the following. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 03:12 > Subject: Re: Gnome very slow > > > > On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 10:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > I am having difficulties with gnom. There is excessive delay between > > > clicking on an item and any response. This delay is from 30 sec to 1 > > > minute. I am running Mankrake 9.2 on a athlon 2100+ XP w/512M mem > running @ > > > 1.7G on a gigabyte KT400 mobo. The kernel is 2.4.22. This is > unacceptable. > > > KDE runs at a much faster rate and top, on the gnome desktop, with > nothing > > > going on cycles from 1 to 3 processess running, approx 88 sleeping. I > dont > > > have a clue. Since this isnt normal I came to the experts. HELP? > > > > Obviously this is not normal, but you have not really provided enough > > information that I can think of anything obvious to suggest. > > > > When say "clicking on an item", what do you mean? Are you selecting a > > menu item or something on the desktop or ...? > > > Previously I dont remember using the menu a lot, due to the speed, so I > guess I was mostly clicking on icons & applets on the desktop and panel. I > mostly used the terminal for updating MDK 9.2. Come to think of it the > first time was likely to set up and that was mostly setting desktop icons > and applets on the panel. I do remember having difficulties exiting the > desktop. Click on logout applet, (panel appeared logout, shutdown, > restart) & desktop shaded, nothing was happening so Master reset(perhaps I > was too quick). I used KDE after this untill I started the update, which > wasnt on KDE but was on gnome. The only difficulty with update was that > modem lights wouldnt connect but I connected with a terminal by calling kppp > (modem lights will still not connect unless I change to kppp (start) cannot > dissconnect, dont know dissconnect command. But logout handles it). > Somewhere in the update cycle Mandrake Update dissappeared from the menu so > I finished in KDE with urpme -auto-select(had a lot of help). Now I decided > to fix the problem and this morning its apparantly gone away(wasnt gone > yesterday). > > > So you have 'top' running in a terminal and you say that one to three > > processes are running actively -- which processes are they? Are they > > using a lot of CPU? > > No. A 386 could have handeled what the cpu was doing. Monitor applett > showed a spike occasinally not very high (about 1/8"). the only time the > cpu showed activity was during installation of a program + an occassional > burst to 1/2 in high and decaying for no more than 1/4 in in time. > The only processes I saw on top yesterday were X, top & terminal. Today with > normal cpu activity on the monitor there was rpmv, top, X & ternimal, rpmv > stopped showing up while I was watching. > > > for testing purposes), do you see the same behaviour? Does it > > always happen (i.e. is it repeatable, or just happens from time to > > time)? Is the machine connected to a network? If so, can it do DNS > > lookups (the period of inactivity could be related to DNS timeouts in > > some circumstances)? > > > > Previous to today it was always there today things are 'normal'. No network > as far as I know no DNS. I am sorry I dont really know what has been > installed yet. > > > Are you just using the standard GNOME packages that came with the > > Mandrake installation? > > > Yes GNOME 2.4. > > > Maybe other people will have some ideas, but for now, I think we need a > > few more clues. So if you can answer those questions we may be able to > > make some progress. > > > > I am sorry I tried to respond but the system acted like I had hung a black > box on it! > Hope theres a clue in here somewhere. I didnt pay enough attention and misssent this to gnome-list-request so I'm resending with an update. I went back to gnome and everything worked untill I clicked the logout applett. Then the "Do you really want to logout" screen appeared the desktop shaded and I waited for almost 2 minutes untill the system restarted. Regards; Hoyt _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
