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mareex

Member

From: Oldenburg, Germany

Registered: 2014-08-27

Posts: 28

[SOLVED] zsh starts extremly slow

Hello folks,

since yesterday the startup time of my zsh is really slow. When I open a new terminal window zsh shows up after 1 Minute.

Measuring with

time /bin/zsh -i -c exit

gives me

/bin/zsh -i -c exit  62,84s user 0,97s system 92% cpu 1:08,75 total

My system is up to date. I already tried to remove ~/.zshrc and ~/.zsh_history but to na avail.
Any ideas?

Last edited by mareex (2015-10-10 19:16:40)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,720

Re: [SOLVED] zsh starts extremly slow

No solid answers.  Have you tried it as a different user?  If you are doing that inside of Xorg, have you tried it at the console?

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mareex

Member

From: Oldenburg, Germany

Registered: 2014-08-27

Posts: 28

Re: [SOLVED] zsh starts extremly slow

Thanks for your answer. I tried with another user from group "users" and with root - In Yakuake, Konsole and tty. The problem is omnipresent. I also had no success with reinstalling zsh. Downgrading zsh would lead into a big mess because of ncurses dependency. Is there a way to debug zsh by profiling its method calls (measure time)?

Edit: I think I have found the culprit. It was my /etc/hosts file. Besides that zsh was starting slow I noticed ntpd was going crazy in cpu usage. So I remembered that I installed hostsblock from AUR yesterday which I used to manipulate my /etc/hosts file. After I restored my /etc/hosts file to its original state zsh is starting normal again.

Last edited by mareex (2015-10-10 19:08:44)