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Wednesday, March 21st 2007, 8:06pm

slow startup and application launch

I am just installed gentoo 2006.1 on a dual opteron machine and I am trying to use kde. It starts up after a very long time and then takes a very long to launch applications. For example, starting a konsole takes several minutes every time I do it. OTOH, starting firefox takes a while for the first window but then is fast all the time. The performance problem only seems to happen with apps that I launch through toolbar menu.

For comparison, I also installed windowmaker and it is blazingly fast for everything. I am 99% sure that xorg is configured correctly for my nv 6600 and hardware acceleration is working.

The output from startx has a small collection of warnings about font paths and x bad window errors but I tracked these down on various forums and everyone seems to say they don't hurt anything. I can ping localhost and my machine by name.

Starting a new konsole takes forever but doesn't generate any errors. How can I find out what is taking so long?

I do seem to see a popup window saying "The process for the system protocol has died unexpectedly" every so often but I haven't been able to find out what that means.

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marc

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Thursday, March 22nd 2007, 12:26am

is your loopback device configured correctly?
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Monday, March 26th 2007, 4:23pm

Yes I think it is. Loopback support is built in to my kernel and I can ping 127.0.0.1

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Marc

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Tuesday, April 3rd 2007, 9:27am

I also have this problem

I have the same problem.

KDE apps take 90 seconds to load.

I think the startup is much longer because there are a series of 90s delays.

When I run an X app, e.g. I do Alt-F2 (run command) xterm - this pops up instantly.

My home directories are nfs mounts.

When I login as root (i.e. not via nfs) the problem goes away.

Also, if I don't use nfs home directories the problem goes away.

It has got me stumped :(

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Tuesday, April 3rd 2007, 7:56pm

So the delay is in the nfs network.

You can try to put /home on nfs, but ~/.kde on the local filesystem and link $KDEHOME to .kde on the local filesystem.

If that works as expected, try to figure out which part is giving problems: the fact that kde configuration files are on nfs, the sockets for dcop or stuff like ksycoca.
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Wednesday, April 11th 2007, 2:14pm

problem fixed

My home directory is also remote via nfs. I emerged nfs-utils and that fixed everything. kde apps now start almost instantly even with ~/.kde mounted through nfs.

thanks for the help,
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Friday, April 13th 2007, 5:46am

RE: problem fixed

Mine seemed to fix itself after a couple of days. (of using gnome)

There may have been an issue with date settings between hosts.... I don't know, but it works great now. very fast.