On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:22:59AM -0700, Rudy Rucker wrote: > > My desktop is REAL slow. > > Here is an example that something is awry.. if I run > # truss -o /tmp/truss xfce4-tips > and click CLOSE immediately when the window is launched (it takes about 60 > seconds) the truss file is large (76MB): > # ls -s /tmp/truss > 76128 /tmp/truss > # grep -c '/usr/local/share/icons/gnome' /tmp/truss > 531404 > # find /usr/local/share/icons/gnome | wc -l > 5597 > # grep > '^stat("//usr/local/share/icons/gnome/22x22/status/stock_volume-min.png' > /tmp/truss | grep volume-min | wc -l > 125 > > Things seem to go ape shit after this line in the truss output: > open("/usr/local/etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders",O_RDONLY,00) = 5 (0x5) > > > So, here are the questions: > why does gdk-pixbuf have to stat every icon 125 times for a total of > 500,000+ stats just to launch one little window? > > I can repeat the process with 'Terminal' and other programs... > > > System info > FreeBSD monchichi.monkeybrains.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE i386 > (running on an AMD) > gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0_6 > xfce-4.4.1_1 > > > THanks for any tips... running cvsup right now and attempting to upgrade > (if possible) pixbuf
See gtk-update-icon-cache(1) manpage and try running it as root with -f flag. Permissions on icon-theme.cache files is the reason I can think of. HTH, Yuri
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