Slow System all of a sudden

justin · 2007-12-08 08:25:34

I recently reinstalled Arch, and everything was going great. My system seemed to be very snappy, and I was quite happy. Now, after a reboot, things have slowed down by a ton. My computer is an AMD 2.6 GHz dual core with 2 gigs of ram. However, gmrun now takes at least 3 seconds to load. 3 seconds isn't a long time I suppose, but for such a small program, it should be almost instant, especially since it takes about the same amount of time even when another instance is running. All other programs are starting a lot slower then they initially did.

The last thing I did was configure openntpd, and add it to rc.conf. I can't imagine this causing the problem. Running htop shows nothing peculiar.

Any suggestions?

EDIT: A quick test leads me to believe that gmrun takes almost the same time to load as firefox. That shouldn't be...

Last edited by justin (2007-12-08 08:35:05)

Gilneas · 2007-12-08 08:38:12

Could it be related to an improperly set up /etc/hosts? (link)

justin · 2007-12-08 08:41:18

Gilneas wrote:

Could it be related to an improperly set up /etc/hosts? (link)

My host name is 'rain'. Here is my hosts file:

#
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost rain
192.168.1.150        rain.storm.com        rain

# End of file

EDIT: Another test, urxvt takes about 4 seconds to load, yet running Quake 3 from the terminal almost loads instantly.

Last edited by justin (2007-12-08 08:43:12)

Gilneas · 2007-12-08 08:52:11

I have to admit, I don't really understand the guide's entry and mine looks different. Until someone more knowledgeable comes along, could you give this a try:

127.0.0.1 rain localhost

justin · 2007-12-08 08:58:47

No change, but thanks for your help.

rasat · 2007-12-08 10:18:35

if the slowness is in KDE, Gnome, or other graphic mode, run "fc-cache -fv", to refresh the font cache.

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Slow System all of a sudden

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