----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Rouch" <crouch@xxxxxxxxx> To: <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 11:09 Subject: Re: Gnome is very slow > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:35:37 -0600 > "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > To: "gnome-list" <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 16:34 > > Subject: Gnome is very slow > > > > > > > I have posted a simular problem before and while the problem seemed > > > to go away, I later went into nautilus and attempted to configure > > > the system, within nautilus the problem was still present. However > > > the desktop was working otherwise. The problem was and is 30 second > > > and longer delays > > from > > > clicking on an item untill it executes or even responds. > > > I am back because I finally found mcc and configured things there, > > > no network or servers were touched. I did switch window managers > > > from metrocity(sp) to gdm. At the time it didnt seem to switch > > > because it complained about another manager running, on subsequent > > > login however gdm was running and everything had 30sec or longer > > > delays. This makes gnome unusable. > > > I dont know where the problem is but I suspect it may be in X. But > > > KDE dosent exibit any such behaviour so that should mean that X is > > > ok. > > > > > *********UPDATE******* > > Apparantly it isnt a network problem, because I can ping localhost > > and get satasfactory response 0 errors @0.26 to 0.29ms and hostname > > returns localhost. Another suggestion was made earlier to try strace. > > Well I tried > > and I dont know how to involke strace 'strace -Tcf /tmp/strace.o' > > wasnt adequate niether was 'strace -Tcfo /tmp/strace'. Therefore if > > you would like to see the output I need a workable command. The man > > page indicates that the output can be limited, this might be a good > > idea but 2 minutes is a long time @ 1.7Ghz. > > > > I don't think strace is going to help, but here are some things you can > try: > > 1) ssh localhost uptime > I will do this this afternoon. > This will either prompt you for a password or complain that it can't > connect to a sshd. In either case, the response should be very quick - > if it takes 30 seconds or so the the problem is with the network. > > 2) df > If this hangs then you have nfs/automounter problems. If it finishes > quickly then you don't. Check that none of your partitions are close > to 100% full df works fine there are only a few partitions and the disk is only 10% used. > > 3) uptime > Make sure that the 3 load average numbers are all less than 1. If > they're not, wait 5 minutes and do it again. If they're still too big > then you probably have some rogue processes. > I will recheck this this afternoon but load levels are usually almost nonexistant. > 4) look at .gnomerc-errors and .xsession-errors. Maybe there is somthing > nasty showing up there. > There is a lot in .xsession-errors but I dont understand it. > 5) look at the output of top. Are there processes hogging the cpu? Are > you nearly out of memory or swap space? > No! memory is mostly catch and I havent caught swap being used yet. > Finally, is it just nautilus that is slow or does the whole system seem > sluggish? I haven't used nautilus for a long time, but one of the > reasons I stopped was because it was too slow. This was several versions Nautilus is OK untill I click on an icon it then takes forever 30sec to 1min before anything happens. > ago though (gnome 2.0 I think). > > HTH, > I hope these comments give you a clue. I'll get back with the other stuff later today. Regards; Hoyt _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
