A couple of annoying F8t3 things

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 08:50 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:56 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > I've noticed two annoying issues in f8t3.
> > 
> > 1. Applications seems to take quite a while to 'appear' on the desktop.
> > After clicking an application on the panel (gedit, gnome-terminal, etc)
> > it takes about 10 secs for them to appear on the desktop.
> > 
> > 2. Evolution (particularly compose) seems to 'pause' for 10 seconds or
> > so every now and then and it becomes unresponsive.  Makes typing emails
> > a pain in the bum (and I've seen it three times in this short email.)
> > 
> > I'm going to bz these, but we wondering if others have seen this too.
> 
> I've sometimes seen stuff like that happen with slightly busted
> networking or something, i.e. strace -f gedit from a terminal and see if
> it is blocking a long time on /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX and compare startup
> time of apps before after after deleting /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX
> 
<snip>
access("/home/rodd/.ICEauthority", R_OK) = 0
open("/home/rodd/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 11
fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=65366, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7cb6000
read(11, "\0\4XSMP\0\0\0\35unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-un"..., 4096) = 4096
close(11)                               = 0
munmap(0xb7cb6000, 4096)                = 0
write(10, "\0\4\1\0\3\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\f+v($c\347x\204R\351\236
\02689\351", 32) = 32
read(10, "\0\10\0\1\3\0\0\0", 8)        = 8
read(10, "\7\0GnomeSM\0001.\6\0002.20.13301", 24) = 24
write(10, "\1\1\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 16
read(10, <snip>

There's a big pause at this point.  Is this what you expect?


R.


> C.
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