Re: Tracking down a login performance problem

["Larry W. Virden" <lvirden cas org>]

> Eventually, I realized that there was some program failing and 
it was 
> trying to re-start because it was in the Gnome session.  I did

> ps aux

> and saw a lot of programs running that I did not recognise, one 
of them 
> was "gnomemeeting".  After doing a kill -9 on that process id, 
then the 
> program was magically fixed.



Thanks for the tip.  I'll keep watching.  We've rebooted the 
system, so there doesn't appear to be any lagging processes at 
this time.  It's a real mystery.


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