Re: Gnome very slow

["Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>
To: <gnome-list-request gnome org>
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 05:21
Subject: Re: Gnome very slow


> Let me preface this by saying this is the first time or many that the
> desktop has reacted normally or somewhat normally.  I am aware that you
cant
> tell anything from the following.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <malcolm commsecure com au>
> To: <gnome-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 03:12
> Subject: Re: Gnome very slow
>
>
> > On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 10:04, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> > > I am having difficulties with gnom.  There is excessive delay between
> > > clicking on an item and any response.  This delay is from 30 sec to 1
> > > minute.  I am running Mankrake 9.2 on a athlon 2100+ XP w/512M mem
> running @
> > > 1.7G on a gigabyte KT400 mobo. The kernel is 2.4.22.   This is
> unacceptable.
> > > KDE runs at a much faster rate and top, on the gnome desktop, with
> nothing
> > > going on cycles from 1 to 3 processess running,  approx 88 sleeping.
I
> dont
> > > have a clue.  Since this isnt normal I came to the experts.  HELP?
> >
> > Obviously this is not normal, but you have not really provided enough
> > information that I can think of anything obvious to suggest.
> >
> > When say "clicking on an item", what do you mean? Are you selecting a
> > menu item or something on the desktop or ...?
> >
> Previously I dont remember using the menu a lot, due to the speed,  so I
> guess I was mostly clicking on icons & applets on the desktop and panel.
I
> mostly used the terminal for updating MDK 9.2.  Come to think of it the
> first time was likely to set up and that was mostly setting desktop icons
> and applets on the panel.  I do remember having difficulties exiting the
> desktop.  Click on logout applet,  (panel appeared logout, shutdown,
> restart) & desktop shaded, nothing was happening so Master reset(perhaps I
> was too quick).  I used KDE after this untill I started the update,  which
> wasnt on KDE but was on gnome.  The only difficulty with update was that
> modem lights wouldnt connect but I connected with a terminal by calling
kppp
> (modem lights will still not connect unless I change to kppp (start)
cannot
> dissconnect, dont know dissconnect command.  But logout handles it).
> Somewhere in the update cycle Mandrake Update dissappeared from the menu
so
> I finished in KDE with urpme -auto-select(had a lot of help).  Now I
decided
> to fix the problem and this morning its apparantly gone away(wasnt gone
> yesterday).
>
> > So you have 'top' running in a terminal and you say that one to three
> > processes are running actively -- which processes are they? Are they
> > using a lot of CPU?
>
> No.  A 386 could have handeled what the cpu was doing.  Monitor applett
> showed a spike occasinally not very high (about 1/8").  the only time the
> cpu showed activity was during installation of a program + an occassional
> burst to 1/2 in high and decaying for no more than 1/4 in in time.
> The only processes I saw on top yesterday were X, top & terminal. Today
with
> normal cpu activity on the monitor there was rpmv, top, X & ternimal,
rpmv
> stopped showing up while I was watching.
>
>
>  for testing purposes), do you see the same behaviour? Does it
> > always happen (i.e. is it repeatable, or just happens from time to
> > time)? Is the machine connected to a network? If so, can it do DNS
> > lookups (the period of inactivity could be related to DNS timeouts in
> > some circumstances)?
> >
>
> Previous to today it was always there today things are 'normal'.  No
network
> as far as I know no DNS.  I am sorry I dont really know what has been
> installed yet.
>
> > Are you just using the standard GNOME packages that came with the
> > Mandrake installation?
> >
> Yes GNOME 2.4.
>
> > Maybe other people will have some ideas, but for now, I think we need a
> > few more clues. So if you can answer those questions we may be able to
> > make some progress.
> >
>
> I am sorry I tried to respond but the system acted like I had hung a black
> box on it!
> Hope theres a clue in here somewhere.
I didnt pay enough attention and misssent this to gnome-list-request so I'm
resending with an update.  I went back to gnome and everything worked untill
I clicked the logout applett.  Then the "Do you really want to logout"
screen appeared the desktop shaded and I waited for almost 2 minutes untill
the system restarted.
Regards;
Hoyt