Re: Gnome is very slow

["Hoyt Bailey" <hoyt13 wiredok com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Telsa Gwynne" <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>
To: "gnome-list" <gnome-list gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 03:34
Subject: Re: Gnome is very slow


> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:35:37AM -0600 or thereabouts, Hoyt Bailey
wrote:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > 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 I am the one who suggested strace, a suggestion I later rescinded:
>
> On Sun, 8 Feb, 2004 at 12:23:38 +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
>
> > However, I am informed by my local hacker that it will probably
> > not help here, so I think I'll drop that idea.
>
> What I was hoping was that in the long list of "opening this
> file, opening this file, opening this file" stuff, there would
> be some errors about not being able to connect to something.
> But for reasons I forget (but I think UDP, the protocol used
> by nameservers, was involved), I was told it wouldn't help in
> this case. So I wouldn't bother trying. The output really is
> a pain to read, and if it's not likely to help, there's no
> point.
>
> For the record, the syntax is strace -o outputfile command-to-trace.
> And this is a Linux-specific thing: Solaris uses something like
> truss instead. Not sure about BSD.
>
Thanks for the above.  I know that you said strace  probably wouldnt help
but when you dont know you will try anything, so why not.  Next time I'll be
better prepaired.

Regards;
Hoyt