----- Original Message ----- From: "Telsa Gwynne" <hobbit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "gnome-list" <gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 03:34 Subject: Re: Gnome is very slow > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:35:37AM -0600 or thereabouts, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > 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 I am the one who suggested strace, a suggestion I later rescinded: > > On Sun, 8 Feb, 2004 at 12:23:38 +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote: > > > However, I am informed by my local hacker that it will probably > > not help here, so I think I'll drop that idea. > > What I was hoping was that in the long list of "opening this > file, opening this file, opening this file" stuff, there would > be some errors about not being able to connect to something. > But for reasons I forget (but I think UDP, the protocol used > by nameservers, was involved), I was told it wouldn't help in > this case. So I wouldn't bother trying. The output really is > a pain to read, and if it's not likely to help, there's no > point. > > For the record, the syntax is strace -o outputfile command-to-trace. > And this is a Linux-specific thing: Solaris uses something like > truss instead. Not sure about BSD. > Thanks for the above. I know that you said strace probably wouldnt help but when you dont know you will try anything, so why not. Next time I'll be better prepaired. Regards; Hoyt _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
