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* Problem:
* terminal commands respond sometimes slow, sometimes ok
* Enviroment:
* desktop + session: openbox, openbox-session
* used terminals: terminal, sakura
* echo $TERM outputs: xterm ( i've googled around and i think thats allright, right? )
* echo $DISPLAY: :0.0
* Example:
* trying to edit a file with VIM, or save it
* loading a MAN page
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Have you checked if updatedb is indexing when you're experiencing the slow response?
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Have you checked if updatedb is indexing when you're experiencing the slow response?
* Nope, how do i do that? I'm guessing i should tail -f updatedbs log?
* I've ran a find for updatedb: find / -name updatedb
* Output:
/etc/cron.daily/updatedb
/usr/bin/updatedb
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You can check with:
top
and/or
ps -ef | grep updatedb
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You can check with:
top
and/or
ps -ef | grep updatedb
Well its not taking that long, i mean it takes like 1-2 second, but this never occured before, i was using - afraid to say.. - xubuntu.
Anyway i've not seen anything to with updatedb in the output of
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Last edited by robotrobert (2011-10-29 11:38:27)
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I would focus on I/O in general - maybe your backups are running?
Use iotop to see what's writing to disc and how much.
The slow response is just when you start the terminal or all the time?
man-db needs to be loaded into memory IIRC so the first time you run 'man foo' will be slow.. Next time 'foo bar' will use the cached data so it should be very fast (unless you run out of RAM and your system is heavily swapping).
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