On Tuesday 16 Jul 2002 9:55 pm, you wrote: > > anne 4391 0.0 0.1 1792 596 pts/1 R 10:06 0:00 grep > > jabber > > A single grep output like that indicates no jabber running. > > > I didn't think this was there - I don't use an instant messenger. > > And as I pointed out, I'm not sure it's something that gets installed > by default, although it is known to cause problems.
OK - I think we can rule this out, then. > > > Logout appears to stop X briefly and then goes straight back to the KDE > > login. There i s a long black screen delay before switching to the KDE > > login > > I see, so then you start up in KDE by default (aka init 5) rather than > the other way. I always have elected to boot up to a virtual console, > login, and then start X from there. Either way, however you logout will > restart at least some processes, and perhaps free up any memory leaks > in those processes. When I was having problems with aRts I found that hang-up enabled me to log in without the problem. If I didn't hang up when I got the problem it was always there at the fresh log in, and even after a boot, as though it was being remembered similar to restoring sessions. > > > desktop - almost a minute - and the panel and restoring session icons are > > there a very long time, too. > > Loading the desktop is a fairly complicated process - there is a lot > of processes to start up. Even on my machine (Athlon 1ghz with 256 > megs) it takes a while. > > > It does seem to be X, I think, as once a Konsole is opened it responds > > fast enough, and so does text editor. > > Opening an instance of konsole takes about 2 seconds from mouse click on > menu to the full window here - I just tried it. I'd surmise that's normal, > and right now my system is fairly lightly loaded. Opening a new Konqueror > instance takes perhaps eight seconds, from clicking on the home icon on the > panel to full display and directory list (and my $HOME is full of stuff). > I'd also surmise that as normal - times much longer than that would not > be normal. > Your timings seem about what I was getting up to a couple of days ago. > If the slowness is unique to one program (konqueror, for instance) then > we might be able to narrow it down, such as some 'net access that is > hanging, or otherwise slow. Running strace sometimes gives clues, but > it's not for the 'average' user. It also could be a misstuck icon -- > for example, knode <icon> when pressed here takes a very long time, > with the "running" splat thing going on and off, and no window pops up, > but running "knode &" from Konsole is more or less instantaneous. I > haven't really looked to fix the icon issue. (Incidentally, I am using > new 3.0.2 rpms from ftp.kde.org.) Getting Konsole up is very slow, and launching komba2 from the Konsole is also slow (but I can't remember for certain how long that took before the problem). Certainly clicking on the shell icon used to be fast. Starting top is fast enough, too, with a second or two delay only. > > If it's nearly everything that's slow, such as keyboard input into a > konsole, or right click on desktup, etc., then soemthing is really > amiss. That would also indicate that some process is stuck eating up > nearly all CPU. Keyboard input is no problem. Moving around with a word processor, for instance, is no problem. It's anything that requires loading time. > > > 10:10am up 13:12, > > OK - and how long was it before you noticed it got really slow, or did > this happen pretty much from restart? > > > Anne This was after an attempt to solve the problem. I had run for a week or so at at time, over about 2 months, without problem. This whole thing started when I first posted about it. After the reboot mentioned above I found it immediately just as bad. It did get a bit better, though, eventually. I minute load times dropped to about 20 seconds. After trying the solutions suggested by Civileme I was again back to nearly 1 minute load times, but again that has eventually dropped to about 20 seconds. This seems to take a few hours to happen, but then it doesn't seem to get any better. I have now been up 1 day 3:13. Anne
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