arch has started crawling on me!!

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-30 15:05:06

hi

after running arch for 2ish months and loving it and it being one of the fastest distros ive used, it has started to run exremely slow!!!

this has happened mainly since opera started playin up!!! i was using the main opera 9.26, but switched to opera-devel in unstable. after getting tired of it crashing everytime i was on isohunt, i uninstalled and re-installed 9.26. it gives an error everytime i try to open it now

It appears another Opera instance is using the same configuration directory because its lock file is active:
/home/danny/.opera/lock
Do you want to start Opera anyway?

nothin happens if i say yes or no.

so i ran ps -ax and found and killed all instances of opera, tried to run opera, and again the same message comes up!!

so i switched back to opera-devel and this has exactly the same problem, except if i say yes, opera will open, but the whole system almost is at a standstill!!!

any ideas??

bgc1954 · 2008-03-30 15:18:38

Did you also delete your /home/danny/.opera directory when you uninstalled and then reinstalled?

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-30 15:24:55

no, should i??

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-30 15:44:40

thanks, that fixed opera, and brought a little pace bac kto the box, but its still no where near what it was!!

bgc1954 · 2008-03-30 15:55:59

The thing with config files in your personal directory is that they aren't removed with a pacman -Rs and in your case installing two different types of opera, I think they were still using the same file from /home/danny/.opera which could cause some confusion I guess.

test1000 · 2008-03-30 16:09:52

kill all opera instances and then rm ~/.opera/lock . then you can start up your favorite opera version again. (although ff3 and thunderbird are better )

kumico · 2008-03-30 17:29:31

just adding to test1000's comment.
if you ever get errors of this type (i.e lockfiles,) after you kill any lingering instances, if there is any
remove the lockfile. before removing your settings, which im sure you put great effort into being the way you wanted

Last edited by kumico (2008-03-30 17:30:14)

bgc1954 · 2008-03-30 19:36:43

Yes kumico has a point. If you've got alot of bookmarks and personal settings setup in opera, deleting the entire .opera directory is overkill but sometimes it is necessary to delete entire .config files to get things working correctly.

ninjaprawn · 2008-03-30 19:46:00

i tried to just remove the lock file 1st, but that made no difference, so i just removed the .opera folder!

i hate thunderbird & firefox!! they are to heavy and run like shit!! i tried swiftfox, n that just isnt much better! opera does everythin firefox does, looks nicer (my opinion), runs loads faster. i have ff installed, but just as a backup to opera! i originally did the opposite, used ff as my main, n opera as backup, but opera is better!

anyone got any tweaking tuning tips? to speed the box up a bit? its just lost a little of its original crispness!

alex_anthony · 2008-03-30 21:01:00

have you tried ff3 though?
follows gtk style, faster, better memory management

to speed things up, it would be handy to know what you're running... KDEmod? GNOME? *box?

Last edited by alex_anthony (2008-03-30 21:02:52)

windtalker · 2008-03-30 21:08:28

For my system Swiftfox works fine.
The last time I tried Opera, [it's been awhile] either jre or flash wouldn't work, can't remember which.
I take it flash as well as jre work in Opera now?

Misfit138 · 2008-03-30 21:22:07

windtalker wrote:

For my system Swiftfox works fine.
The last time I tried Opera, [it's been awhile] either jre or flash wouldn't work, can't remember which.
I take it flash as well as jre work in Opera now?

Works pretty well with Opera 9.5 in [unstable]

windtalker · 2008-03-31 00:34:24

Thx Misfit.

ninjaprawn · 2008-04-02 20:07:21

i havent tried ff3, opera unstable works perfectly, it went thru a fase crashin on isohunt, but thats stopped, im just running the full kde!! i couldnt get kdemod to install, n find the full kde runs nicely anyway, uninstalled a few bits myself though. i havent tried swiftfox in arch, but in other distros, the dif between sf and ff wer never that huge, n opera has always bin hugely faster than both. is ff3 in unstable? or would i have 2 compile it?? i will defo give it a go!

stonecrest · 2008-04-02 20:34:57

ninjaprawn wrote:

is ff3 in unstable? or would i have 2 compile it??

Take 5 seconds and look?

alex_anthony · 2008-04-02 21:07:28

by which he means yes it is

praka123 · 2008-04-03 09:12:50

I am experiencing slow down on my Debian Sid after 1 year or so :? .
In general,what should we look down when system is slow,when adequate RAM,GFX and processor power is already therE?
I had edited /etc/hosts
like this:but no improvement

localhost:~# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)

::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
192.168.1.2 sid

also should I disable IPV6?what Other reasons for slow down?esp the APplications menu in GNome when pressed takes 4-5 sec to open at the first chance

praka123 · 2008-04-04 06:17:25

any idea?

cactus · 2008-04-04 16:56:22

maybe ask on the debian forums?
*shrug*

praka123 · 2008-04-05 17:56:40

gr8
:roll:

Dheart · 2008-04-06 10:22:31

Opera 9.50 changes the layout of the .opera directory and therefore when downgrading you should delete it.

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