2009/11/11 Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net>: > 091111 Iain Buchanan wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:19 -0500, 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. >> the disk / cpu does nothing ? > > I just tested starting Xterm on the desktop where Gkrellm runs. > There is a brief CPU load of 27 % , then 100 % at every start; > at the 1st start, there's a spike in disk access; > 1st start was c 6 sec , 2nd c 4 sec . Xpdf is very similar. > Xclock has the same CPU effect, but starts after c 3 sec . > > I remerged Xterm & Xclock, ran 'X -configure' & re-installed xorg.conf , > but there is no change. > >> Run lsmod and see if the nvidia driver is actually being used ? >> -- I have 48 in the used-by column. > > Yes, it is: used by '26'. > >> Is the general refresh rate and glx type apps ok ? > > There hasn't been any other similar effect which I've noticed. > >> I don't think you need to rebuild nvidia, but did you anyway ? > > I last rebuilt Nvidia-drivers after the Xorg-x11 upgrade; > I had to use the testing version 185.18.36-r1 , > as "stable" 180.60 wouldn't compile with Gentoo-sources 2.6.31-r4 . > > Someone else mentioned networking, but I have no local network or firewall > & none of these apps uses the Internet. >
The localhost issue in /etc/hosts only affected KDE as far as I recall. If you are not running KDE as your DE then it would be something else. Over here xpdf takes less that 1 second to pop up when started from a terminal in Fluxbox, but I am not running xorg-x11. -- Regards, Mick
