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Hi, so I made a fresh install of Arch with the Gnome desktop. Really quick at first, but after a few days and restarts, Gnome is much slower now than it was before.. Opening small apps like terminal/liferea takes about 4-6 seconds (fresh install was 1-1,5)! A few apps installed (firefox3, pidgin, vlc etc), but just the basics. Compiz-Fusion and AWN starts on logging, but they barely take any mem or CPU.. I installed "preload" as I heard it would improve startup speed for commonly used apps. It's a bit disappointing as KDEmod is way faster and yet uses many larger apps (like Amarok (KDE) and Audacious (Gnome) uses about the same time to start).
Apps opens quite fast when they have been loaded once or twice though (1,5s or less).
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Thanks, I did that, but didn't help much. Firefox, Terminal and Liferea etc is still slower to start than they were a few days ago (I feel it's gradually getting slower over time)..
Here's my hosts file:
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# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
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#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain myhost
# End of file
I tried to add "localhost" before myhost as well, but didn't notice any difference then either. Hostname is set to myhost in rc.conf (and in terminalname).
Last edited by Ub1476 (2008-03-12 23:41:14)
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Create a new user, and log into gnome as that user. That will tell you whether it's a problem with the system files, or $HOME.
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A little improvement with a new user, but I barely notice it..
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for your hosts file, try
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 myhost myhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
# End of file
Thats what I have, and I've never had any problems with speed. Where myhost is what you have defined in rc.conf as your hostname.
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Hello,
Happened to me too, first Gnome was fast, then it gradually slows down after a few days and reboots. Turned out that the Assistive Technology was enabled (can't remember I enabled this). Disabling it and other related features (keyboard accessibility, visual AT session, etc) solved it.
Hope this helps
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Thank you, it's slightly faster now. Terminal uses 2-3s, Liferea still uses 4-5s though. Is this normal for it?
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Terminal takes 2-3s to start, while Liferea, 11-12s.
Am using an old Athlon XP 1.8Ghz with 360MB ram (+24MB shared video memory)
Last edited by biloky (2008-03-13 14:38:32)
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I wonder if it's installed applications, unused dependencies, or something? I really want Gnome to be as fast as KDEmod.:cool:
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^I am wondering whether u guys found out the culprit is it /etc/hosts file contents?
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