On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:04:48 -0600, Edward Ruggeri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:54:55 -0600, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The main application I run is Vim, which I run through Gnome-
Terminal. I frequently have several copies running
simultaneously. In general response to Gnome-Terminal
commands is very fast, but sometimes when I try to open a
file with Vim it takes up to 20-30 seconds to load. The
files are not particularly large (max 300 lines).
During this time, if I try to launch another application in
Gnome (e.g., Opera or another Gnome-Terminal), it will not
come up. It is as if everything is frozen until finally Vi
loads and opens the file, at which point anything else I have
tried to open works fine.
Is it possible that you're low on RAM, and the system has to swap in a
bunch of stuff to let you task-switch to Opera or GT? Is it only the
combination of GT & Vim, or do you sometimes encounter this long delay
when switching between applications doing other things?
I have of course looked at top when this problem occurs. CPU
usage is about 2%, and there is no significant memory usage
either.
It would be helpful to know what state the GT & vim processes were in,
too.
RAM usage remains very low throughout. In addition, I have 2GB of RAM
on this system, so while that was also my first suspicion, I don't think
that's it.
When vim exhibits this behavior (which it doesn't always do), it will
sit in sbwait and will finally load as it comes out of sbwait. If I try
to open another GT during vim's stalling, it will also be stuck in
sbwait, generally coming out of it at the same time as vim.
Thanks very much for your thoughts!
-- Ned Ruggeri
Sorry to post again in response to my own email, but I have some new
information. In addition to the processes being stuck in sbwait, it also
appears that when loading they start on the second core but switch to the
first when getting out of the sbwait state. Also, this problem definitely
seems to be exhibited in other applications. Sometimes I have to wait 15
seconds for Gnome-Terminal to load even with no applications running.
I'm suspicious this might be related to Gnome's Screensaver, since GT
opens slowly generally after coming out of screensaver. Any thoughts?
It's a real drag, because freeBSD is so fast for me outside this problem,
but it's making it impossible to use...
Thanks guys!
Sincerely,
-- Ned Ruggeri
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