A couple of annoying F8t3 things

[Rodd Clarkson]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:22 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> 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
> 
> If it's blocking significantly on something in /tmp/, that's serious. 
> Those are unix domain sockets, and their traffic is local to the box.
> 
> > 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
> 
> What I was wondering is what size* box is Rodd using, and might 
> Evolution 's pauses be while it's saving the work file? Seamonkey does 
> that on SL5 (Tikanga-clone), and loses keystrokes. It bugs me.

There's always a pause just after sending an email (with something down
in the status bar that is like saving file)  When I'm in compose I don't
see anything showing in the status bar, but it might be the compose
window saving the message in case of a crash (so it can offer it up when
you restart).

> 
> CPU, RAM, disk  disk speed as measured by "hdparm -t /dev/sda"

Centrino 2.0GHz
1 Gig RAM

[root at localhost ~]# hdparm -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  118 MB in  3.02 seconds =  39.09 MB/sec

R.

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