Slow app load Was: moving partititions

[Jim Cheetham]

On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 19:23 -0500, Drewcore wrote:
> no, this doesn't fix my problem... its only some of my apps that load
> slowly, mostly the ones that are packaged with gnome (totem,
> users-admin, network-admin, etc). i'm using xfce now because the gnome
> apps load so slowly (including panel).

How slow? Milliseconds, seconds or minutes?

If you invoke one from the command-line, how long does it take? (e.g.
"time users-admin" - ignore the "real" time, as this includes your
interaction with the GUI)

Is it only for the first load, or for every load? (the first load comes
from the disk, and the resultant data is cached - second load comes from
memory, and therefore the only delays you get are in the app itself)

Perhaps there are some network-level things going on between gnome
components, that's not my area of knowledge, but you might be able to
find the slow sections with strace ...

$ strace -o /tmp/tracefile -f -tt users-admin

This can be extremely verbose and difficult to grok, especially if you
have an interactive program like users-admin. Do you have any
non-interactive programs that show this behaviour?

I'd normally look for repeated wait/alarm sections, with large time
deltas between them - but unfortunately most of those that show up will
be the gui itself waiting for input, not the underlying system waiting
for resources.

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