Re: Gnome is very slow

["b p" <xlacklusterx hotmail com>]

I haven't really been following this thread so forgive me if this is out of 
place, but I've experianced a similar problem, though I know what my cause 
is. Since upgrading to 2.6.2, NFS runs *INSANELY* slow. I mounted and cd'd 
to my mp3 dir which has alot of mp3s (duh). I then did $>ls | wc -c, 
multiplied the result by 1024, counted how long it took and divided by the 
number of seconds. My NFS speed was approximatly 3K/s. For those of you that 
may not know, that's really slow. REALLY, REALLY SLOW.

HTTP, FTP, traceroute, ping and all that good stuff is fine between all 
machines. It's just NFS that's slow. I played with all configuration options 
(even in the kernal), mount options, everything short of changing the NFS 
code, to no avail. Unless you have ruled this out, you may want to see if 
this is your problem too.

Keep us posted


> ----- 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
>
>
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