Slow app load Was: moving partititions

[Drewcore]

well, today, i don't seem to be having the problem anymore.

mostly though it was the apps involved in gnome, and i was thinking it
had something to do with me not using gnome, or the locations of my
paritions.

now however, things seem to be working wonderfully.

On Apr 7, 2005 8:17 PM, Jim Cheetham <jim at egressive.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 19:23 -0500, Drewcore wrote:
> > no, this doesn't fix my problem... its only some of my apps that load
> > slowly, mostly the ones that are packaged with gnome (totem,
> > users-admin, network-admin, etc). i'm using xfce now because the gnome
> > apps load so slowly (including panel).
> 
> How slow? Milliseconds, seconds or minutes?
> 
> If you invoke one from the command-line, how long does it take? (e.g.
> "time users-admin" - ignore the "real" time, as this includes your
> interaction with the GUI)
> 
> Is it only for the first load, or for every load? (the first load comes
> from the disk, and the resultant data is cached - second load comes from
> memory, and therefore the only delays you get are in the app itself)
> 
> Perhaps there are some network-level things going on between gnome
> components, that's not my area of knowledge, but you might be able to
> find the slow sections with strace ...
> 
> $ strace -o /tmp/tracefile -f -tt users-admin
> 
> This can be extremely verbose and difficult to grok, especially if you
> have an interactive program like users-admin. Do you have any
> non-interactive programs that show this behaviour?
> 
> I'd normally look for repeated wait/alarm sections, with large time
> deltas between them - but unfortunately most of those that show up will
> be the gui itself waiting for input, not the underlying system waiting
> for resources.
> 
> --
> -jim cheetham = jim at egressive dot com
> www.egressive.com, www.effusiongroup.com
> 
> 


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