apps getting very slow - where to get some details? [SOLVED]

kozaki · 2005-12-12 11:45:47

All my apps (Gui as well as console) are so sloooow to react since I upgraded to kernel 2.6.14.3-2 Sunday morning & got that message at boot :

EXT2-fs warning (device sda6): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
(...)
::: checking filesystem
/dev/sda6 clean
/dev/sda9 is mounted. e2fsck: cannot continue, aborting
Type root password for (...)

Here is the detailed post about that issue.
Also upgraded to latest nVidia 1.0.8174-1 (that was yesterday evening)

Pliz where/how should i look for having some more infos about that Gui issue :?:
All I found in dmesg, /var/log is something related to gconf :

Dec 12 12:59:42 llewellyn (kozaki-9543): démarrage (version 2.12.1), pid 9543 utilisateur « kozaki »
Dec 12 12:59:42 llewellyn (kozaki-9543): Adresse « xml:readonly:/opt/gnome/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory » résolue vers une source de configuration en lecture seule à la position 0
Dec 12 12:59:42 llewellyn (kozaki-9543): Adresse « xml:readwrite:/home/kozaki/.gconf » résolue vers une source de configuration accessible en écriture à la position 1
Dec 12 12:59:42 llewellyn (kozaki-9543): Adresse « xml:readonly:/opt/gnome/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults » résolue vers une source de configuration en lecture seule à la position

EDIT : it is solved
Main symptom was super slow HDD writes (see 3rd post)
Now how could one have found what problem it was the faster way than I blindly did ?

kozaki · 2005-12-13 01:52:33

box components are brand new (3 weeks), still it might be HDD (or ALi controller Sata support in kernel as it started with last upgrade) related :
HDD makes a *lot* more writing-noise (read: not noise, but as if it took ages to write something on it) than until 2 days ago. GTK apps stay blank/unreactive for a few seconds before returning back to being usable

There"s no such sign on Mandriva 2006 x86_64 or Windows, but thoses OS I don't use them a lot, & on other partitions.

Bonnie++ output on sda12 partition (JFS beeing missrecognized on boot from time to time since last upgrade time ; have to launch jfs_fsck then it mounts readilly :?:) :

$ bonnie++ -x 1 -s 2016
Writing with putc()...done
Writing intelligently...done
Rewriting...done
Reading with getc()...done
Reading intelligently...done
start 'em...done...done...done...
Create files in sequential order...done.
Stat files in sequential order...done.
Delete files in sequential order...done.
Create files in random order...done.
Stat files in random order...done.
Delete files in random order...done.
llewellyn,2016M,21892,49,23499,8,17366,3,21819,45,26448,2,174.6,0,16,6727,13,+++++,+++,3257,8,3762,24,+++++,+++,1360,6

Cannot launch bonnie++ on /home partition as it asks for 2 times RAM MB & my /home is only 2MB (1,5 available)

kozaki · 2005-12-15 12:54:39

SOLVED : due to my mistake
A miss-interpreted (uh, miss created ) udev rule, that caused an external USB HDD partition to be recognized as /dev/sda9 which is also the /home partition on internal HDD :oops:
Every HDD writes were so slow I thought i might have a fast-as-a-CF HDD :evil:

Now udev rule modified & it rocks (mounting/unmounting external devices automatically by itself alone), thank to lanrat

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#1 2005-12-12 11:45:47

apps getting very slow - where to get some details? [SOLVED]

#2 2005-12-13 01:52:33

Re: apps getting very slow - where to get some details? [SOLVED]

#3 2005-12-15 12:54:39

Re: apps getting very slow - where to get some details? [SOLVED]

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