On Sunday 05 May 2002 3:33 am, John Haywood wrote: > On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:10, Alastair Scott wrote: > > There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can > > define quite precisely. > > not just KDE3 if I'm right..... > > > If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say a > > .tar.gz) then select 'Save Link As ...' there's _enormous_ hard > > disk thrashing before the file save dialog appears. > > > > I also notice the same effect when I do 'Open ...' from KDE 3 > > applications (eg ark and kwrite); it often takes a minute or two > > for the file open dialog to appear. > > > > Finally, there's a lot of disk thrashing between entering the > > username and password and the KDE 3 splash screen appearing. > > Do you have automount enabled on your box? If so, chkconfig --del > automount is your friend....
No, so it's not that. Inter alia Mozilla doesn't suffer from the same problem, so it seems to be something inside KDE3. I'll keep checking and, for a start, will clear out _every_ cache within .kde3. There may well be something corrupt in one of them ... Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/
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