091111 Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:19 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> 091111 Iain Buchanan wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:31 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >>>> Since upgrading to Xorg-x11-7.4-r1 , Xterm & Xpdf are very slow to open: >>>> Xterm takes c 6 sec to start & Xpdf also has a noticeable delay. > the disk / cpu does nothing ?
I just tested starting Xterm on the desktop where Gkrellm runs. There is a brief CPU load of 27 % , then 100 % at every start; at the 1st start, there's a spike in disk access; 1st start was c 6 sec , 2nd c 4 sec . Xpdf is very similar. Xclock has the same CPU effect, but starts after c 3 sec . I remerged Xterm & Xclock, ran 'X -configure' & re-installed xorg.conf , but there is no change. > Run lsmod and see if the nvidia driver is actually being used ? > -- I have 48 in the used-by column. Yes, it is: used by '26'. > Is the general refresh rate and glx type apps ok ? There hasn't been any other similar effect which I've noticed. > I don't think you need to rebuild nvidia, but did you anyway ? I last rebuilt Nvidia-drivers after the Xorg-x11 upgrade; I had to use the testing version 185.18.36-r1 , as "stable" 180.60 wouldn't compile with Gentoo-sources 2.6.31-r4 . Someone else mentioned networking, but I have no local network or firewall & none of these apps uses the Internet. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
