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SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Gnome Slow Application Launching

There is an unexplained phenomenon occurring on my laptop. I click a Places folder or the Terminal icon, and gnome takes a long time to respond. Memory usage is low. CPU usage is <5% or non-existant. Launched applications respond fast. I have not observed this under KDEmod or Xfce (GNOME services turned off; whatever those may be, I'd love to turn them off in actual GNOME as well). Sometimes pacman does the same thing. It behaves as if I put it to sleep for a few seconds. No CPU usage. Then it resumes doing the command. It takes a while to respond to a given command.

It's quite annoying. 'Places > Home Folder' or Terminal can take 15 seconds (not scientific, but 1001, 1002, 1003...). No CPU usage.

Last edited by SpookyET (2008-02-15 20:39:20)

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Gnome Slow Application Launching

time nautilus ~

real    0m10.208s
user    0m0.093s
sys    0m0.020s

time gnome-terminal

real    0m14.447s
user    0m0.270s
sys    0m0.043s

No CPU usage. It's like someone pressed CTRL+Z immediately after luanch. Then fg. I don't know what gnome is doing.

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Gnome Slow Application Launching

It looks like it was a timeout.

Changing:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

To:
127.0.0.1 localhost mercurius

fixed it.

time nautilus ~

real    0m0.255s
user    0m0.093s
sys    0m0.020s

Some things are still slower than other desktop environments.

srimalik

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Registered: 2007-09-16

Posts: 65

Re: Gnome Slow Application Launching

I had this problem some time back....and the solution was same modyifying /etc/hosts.
I am not sure why /etc/hosts effects gnome ??

Kazte

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Registered: 2008-07-10

Posts: 8

Re: Gnome Slow Application Launching

Thanks! I've being bothered by this issue for quite a while , after I edited the /etc/hosts everything is OK now!