On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 20:40, John Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 21:28, Texstar wrote: > > Updated RC-1 with cooker updates today and Gnome2 is very slow to launch > > and even slower at launching applications. Evolution takes a good minute > > to get the main screen. Anyone else having this issue or can give me > > something to look at to find what could be causing it to be so slow? > > > > > > > > > > > I thought it was just me but I'm also experiencing sluggishness with > Gnome2 and launching of applications. I'm also seeing strange system > behavior when I run rpmdrake from a terminal window. Specifically, > processor occupancy goes up to 99% and stays there for about 1-2min. > Doing a top shows that nautilus, gnome-terminal and X are consuming all > the cycles. > >
Well whatever the problem was, it seems to have fixed itself after running top from the console everything got snappy again. The only thing that I can think of that has anything to do with top is maybe the gnome2 system monitor applet I have running on the taskbar?
