Philip Webb wrote: > 091111 Iain Buchanan wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 16:31 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> >>> Since upgrading to Xorg-x11-7.4-r1 , Xterm & Xpdf are very slow to open: >>> Xterm takes c 6 sec to start & Xpdf also has a noticeable delay. >>> >> routes ? >> > > Could you expand a little ... (smile) ? > > >> localhost in /etc/hosts ? Sounds weird, but in the XFree86 days >> I had not mapped the word localhost to 127 properly >> and X behaved very slow. Just a wild guess though. >> > > The uncommented lines in that file are > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > ::1 localhost > > Ok, a wild guess (grin). > > >> Alternatively, reboot to make sure you've unloaded / reloaded modules. >> > > I don't have any modules except Nvidia & I reboot at least daily. > > >> What did you upgrade from ? 7.x ? 6.x ? >> > > 7.3 IIRC > > Anyone else see this or have advice ? > >
Run top and see if something strange is there. No clue what but maybe there will be a clue there. May try iotop to see if the drive is a bottle neck. If it is, check to make sure the drives are using DMA or whatever is fastest for your system. Could even run hdparm -Tt to test the drives as well. Just throwing out ideas here. Dale :-) :-)
