Incredibly slow warty

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 04:23:57PM +1000, andrew fries wrote:

> The computer is Athlon XP 1800 with 512 MB of RAM.
> 
> The system is a freshly-installed warty rc1, unmodified in any way.
> 
> And the problem is, programs launch incredibly slowly. Booting process 
> seems normal, but the problems appear once I enter my login/passwd in 
> GDM's login screen. From there, I estimate it took about 10 minutes to 
> start Gnome... Now in Gnome, it takes over 30 seconds to start Gedit. 
> Yet the system has plenty of RAM, plenty of disk space, there are no 
> stray processes eating up processor cycles and hdparm reports dma is on...
> What's going on here?

Try disabling sound events?  If you have an IRQ conflict or similar, this
kind of unresponsiveness can result from the playing of sounds.

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 - mdz