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matti
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 Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: gnome-terminal slow... |
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I just installed 29k. Now I have problems with speed. Gnome-terminal starts extremely slow and when I start gnome, the splash screen is on for about one minute. Other applications seem to start at normal speed.
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jebba
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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Can you run `top` to see what is taking most CPU? I haven't seen this.
-Jeff
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stevo32
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jebba
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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It sounds like something else is going on though, than just gnome-terminal being slow. That sounds more like a symptom, ya know? rxvt is much faster though :)
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stevo32
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I know that. That's why i said "If it is gnome-terminal that is the problem"...
Anyways, yeah, i'm still definitly agreeing with you that its something running in the background/a very slow computer that is the problem.
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jebba
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:48 am Post subject: |
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Also, if it was a new install, it could be that something like slocate or the prelinker was running. These normally run at 4am or so, but run soon after booting up on a new install. In other words, the problem may just disappear.
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matti
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:36 am Post subject: |
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I ran top and it seemed normal. Here all that were taking any cpu.
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4162 root 15 0 84628 21m 5664 S 4.7 8.6 0:18.44 X
4622 matti 15 0 37848 13m 9016 S 3.7 5.3 0:02.21 gnome-terminal
4565 matti 15 0 104m 29m 16m S 1.3 11.6 0:31.44 firefox-bin
4513 matti 16 0 29248 16m 9.8m S 0.3 6.5 0:01.39 gnome-panel
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I installed rxvt and it runs fine. I also ran hdparm:
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[root@7 matti]# /sbin/hdparm -t /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 162 MB in 3.04 seconds = 53.30 MB/sec
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I also installed kde-packages to try konsole and it is even slower than gnome-terminal. It's interesting that applications like firefox or synaptic start in a second but gnome-terminal takes a lot longer. How can that be? Is it possible that some program that both gnome-terminal and konsole use is broken or buggy?
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matti
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:50 am Post subject: |
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it was a new install. So you could be right that some programs are running. I think that this is unlikely though because my computer has been open for several hours now.
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matti
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:30 am Post subject: |
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The problem is with gnome. I started xfce instead of gnome and gnome-terminal works just fine. I'm using xfce until this problem is solved.
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matti
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: |
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I remembered that some time ago I upgraded blag 19k to fc3 and it worked just fine. I never had any problems with 19k. I decided to do that again but instead of fc3 I would use 29k. I installed 19k and am now using it. I now have the same problem that I had with 29k. Gnome doesn't work properly.
Do you have any ideas on how to figure out what is broken? It could be my hardware. Or is there a possibility that this happens because of BIOS settings. I think I haven't touched them other than changing the primary boot device when installing new operating systems. Also, it is odd that xfce and kde seem to work just fine.
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jebba
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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ok. ya, definitely sounds gnome related...
Try creating a new user and see if its related to your setup, somehow...
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matti
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| Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:38 am Post subject: |
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Adding a new user didn't help...
I installed 29k again and I still have the same problem. I changed blag to start at runlevel 3 so that it would start a little faster because I realized that gdm is also slow. It takes a lot longer to start kde or xfce from runlevel 3 than from runlevel 5.
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Guest
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| Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 2:14 am Post subject: Reliability |
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| Quote: | | ok. ya, definitely sounds gnome related... |
Does it work all the time for you?:?
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