Re: Gnome is very slow

["Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Rouch" <crouch pobox com>
To: <gnome-list gnome org>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 11:09
Subject: Re: Gnome is very slow


> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:35:37 -0600
> "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com> wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>
> > To: "gnome-list" <gnome-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 16:34
> > Subject: Gnome is very slow
> >
> >
> > > I have posted a simular problem before and while the problem seemed
> > > to go away, I later went into nautilus and attempted to configure
> > > the system, within nautilus the problem was still present.  However
> > > the desktop was working otherwise.  The problem was and is 30 second
> > > and longer delays
> > from
> > > clicking on an item untill it executes or even responds.
> > > I am back because I finally found mcc and configured things there,
> > > no network or servers were touched.  I did switch window managers
> > > from metrocity(sp) to gdm.  At the time it didnt seem to switch
> > > because it complained about another manager running, on subsequent
> > > login however gdm was running and everything had 30sec or longer
> > > delays.  This makes gnome unusable.
> > > I dont know where the problem is but I suspect it may be in X. But
> > > KDE dosent exibit any such behaviour so that should mean that X is
> > > ok.
> > >
> > *********UPDATE*******
> > Apparantly it isnt a network problem,  because I can ping localhost
> > and get satasfactory response 0 errors @0.26 to 0.29ms and hostname
> > returns localhost.  Another suggestion was made earlier to try strace.
> >  Well I tried
> > and I dont know how to involke strace 'strace -Tcf /tmp/strace.o'
> > wasnt adequate niether was 'strace -Tcfo /tmp/strace'.  Therefore if
> > you would like to see the output I need a workable command.  The man
> > page indicates that the output can be limited,  this might be a good
> > idea but 2 minutes is a long time @ 1.7Ghz.
> >
>
> I don't think strace is going to help, but here are some things you can
> try:
>
> 1) ssh localhost uptime
>

I will do this this afternoon.

> This will either prompt you for a password or complain that it can't
> connect to a sshd. In either case, the response should be very quick -
> if it takes 30 seconds or so the the problem is with the network.
>
> 2) df
> If this hangs then you have nfs/automounter problems. If it finishes
> quickly then you don't. Check that none of your partitions are close
> to 100% full

df works fine there are only a few partitions and the disk is only 10% used.

>
> 3) uptime
> Make sure that the 3 load average numbers are all less than 1. If
> they're not, wait 5 minutes and do it again. If they're still too big
> then you probably have some rogue processes.
>

I will recheck this this afternoon but load levels are usually almost
nonexistant.

> 4) look at .gnomerc-errors and .xsession-errors. Maybe there is somthing
> nasty showing up there.
>

There is a lot in .xsession-errors but I dont understand it.

> 5) look at the output of top. Are there processes hogging the cpu? Are
> you nearly out of memory or swap space?
>

No! memory is mostly catch and I havent caught swap being used yet.

> Finally, is it just nautilus that is slow or does the whole system seem
> sluggish? I haven't used nautilus for a long time, but one of the
> reasons I stopped was because it was too slow. This was several versions

Nautilus is OK untill I click on an icon it then takes forever 30sec to 1min
before anything happens.

> ago though (gnome 2.0 I think).
>
> HTH,
>
I hope these comments give you a clue.  I'll get back with the other stuff
later today.

Regards;
Hoyt