It's not just you, I noticed the same behavior as soon as I added NFS mounts at home and then brought my machine into work. I have tried re- installing, disabling all sorts of plugins but cannot get QS to run well.
On Oct 3, 3:11 pm, ooglek <[email protected]> wrote: > I've got an Automount set in Disk Utility for an NFS mount of my NAS > at home on my MacBook Pro. The NAS stores my music and my iTunes > library locally references that music. > > As you might imagine, when I'm not at home, and the NFS mount is > broken, iTunes doesn't always work so great. However, this never > affected Quicksilver to the best of my knowledge, at least not r3815 > b54. > > I recently upgraded to 10.6 Snow Leopard and realized that I should > also upgrade Quicksilver to b56a7. Had really no problems to speak of > on my Mac Pro at home, which doesn't move. And, while at home, all > was well with my b56a7 install on my MacBook Pro with 10.6 as well. > > The problems started when I left town. I kept getting the spinning > wheel of death (SPOD) immediately after activating QS, then after > typing a bit (about 10 seconds) searches would show up, but then > another 10 seconds of delays occurred before getting the action list > for the selected item. This drove me nuts for the last few hours. > > A few things I did -- I found a symlink in my Home dir to the /Volumes/ > NetFolder which is where my NFS mount lives, so I removed it, lest QS > try to index that link on every launch. I also uninstalled the iTunes > plugin and relaunched QS to make sure QS wasn't getting hung up on > itunes getting hung up. > > Finally I removed the TextMate string ranker. This works on my Mac > Pro, but when I use it on my MacBook I simply get no results. Not > sure if that was related to my issues, but it definitely caused > consternation, to the point where I removed it. > > I'm now pretty solid. I miss TextMate, and I'm sure I'll miss iTunes > when I'm at home (I'll just re-enable it when at home, and disable it > when not). However, I wanted to post about it should others have a > similar problem. I googled for the issue and couldn't find any posts > that mention it. > > I'm not sure what changed, either QS or OSX or iTunes, that manifested > this issue where broken Automounted NFS mounts would cause QS to get > stuck in a SPOD for 10-15 seconds per action, but it is definitely an > issue I'd love to see resolved, if it is indeed a QS issue directly.
