Re: Gnome is very slow

[Chris Rouch <crouch pobox com>]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:25:29 -0600
"Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com> wrote:

> >
> > That's not good. Can you show me the output from uptime, or the
> > first line from top, e.g.
> >
> >  11:10am  up 40 days, 22 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.15,
> >  0.16
> >
> 
> uptime as me
> 23;54;59 Up 1 min, 2 users, load averages 0.69, 0.29, 0.11
> as other user
> 00:01:45  Up 8 min, 2 users, load averages 0.19, 0.14, 0.09
> Time is GMT
> The only difference I noticed between me and other user was that for
> other user the splash screen went away by its self and for me it did
> not. Otherwise everything seemed to be the same.
> 
> > I've seen cases where zombie processes have pushed the load average
> > to 4 or 5, and though they don't seem to be using CPU they slow the
> > machine
> 
> top indicated there were 0 zombie
> 
> > down (in that case it was the automounter which I don't think is the
> > problem).
> >
> > Another thing to try is to create a fresh user (using useradd as
> > root) and login as that user and see if you get the same behaviour.
> >
> Regards;
> Hoyt
> 
> 

I'm sorry - I think I've tried all I can think of. Maybe someone with
more knowledge of how nautilus works can help you. The only thing I have
left to suggest is that you have the absolute lastest gnome packages
from your distro installed.



Regards,

Chris
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Chris Rouch
crouch pobox com