Xaveer Leijtens wrote: > Hi, > > When I start gvim from konsole in KDE (3.2.2), it takes between 2 > seconds and sometimes over 1 minute(!) to start. Most of the time it > takes around 7 seconds. I have a laptop 1.2 GHz, 512 ram and this > happens also if no swap has been used. It is slow on starting other > applications as well, but my editor should really be snappy, so for gvim > it hurts most. When I use blackbox with the same kernel (2.6.5), it > starts within 1.5 seconds, which is OK. Plain vim starts immediately. > > Does anyone have a suggestion? I had similar problems. In my case it was a malfunction or an old wrong configuration from artsd. When I stopped and disabled the arts-daemon everything went fine again. Try "top" and look if arts gives you full CPU-usage when you start an application.
I still havn't found a solution to get along with artsd... => sad story for an entusiastic KDE-User :( Kind regards, Ralf
