Re: GTK apps very slow to launch

[Ivan Baldo <ibaldo adinet com uy>]

   Make sure you run the application with "strace -f -r -o 
outputfile.txt thegtkprogram", the -r option is handy in this case since 
it shows the time between syscalls, the -o option is good because it 
redirects output to a file instead of slowing down because the terminal 
has to parse a lot of text (so you only get hard disk overhead instead 
of the terminal program and video drivers doing their slow thing).
   Also, maybe it is trying to contact a font server? Try to run the X 
Font Server (xfs) (ps fax to see if it is running already) and make sure 
you use it in your XOrg/XFree configuration file: in the Files section, 
you should have a line that says FontPath "unix/:7100" before all other 
FontPath's; if you have it then try the inverse: comment it out and 
restart X.
   While GTK doesn't have lightspeed, it isn't _that_ slow of course :).
   HTH!



El 18/07/06 00:40, Richard Querin escribió:

> On 7/17/06, *Valdis Kletnieks vt edu <mailto:Valdis Kletnieks vt edu>* 
> <Valdis Kletnieks vt edu <mailto:Valdis Kletnieks vt edu> > wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:54:58 EDT, Richard Querin said:
>
>     It's quite possible that the actual pattern of system calls as
>     reported by
>     strace is almost the same, but due to disk fragmentation, the
>     system is
>     spending lots of time seeking back and forth now.
>
>     Is the disk light on solid when this is happening?
>
>
>
> No disk light at all. The cpu monitor is showing full 100% CPU  usage  
> until the app has appeared.
>
>
>  

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