bug#48910: Very slow startup of GTK+ applications

2021-06-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > Googling, I found some similar bug reports: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243737 > https://forum.level1techs.com/t/gtk-applications-are-super-slow-at-startup/166540 > > The Arch discussion is very similar, as we are both using i3 launched > with start

bug#48910: Very slow startup of GTK+ applications

2021-06-07 Thread Leo Famulari
Googling, I found some similar bug reports: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243737 https://forum.level1techs.com/t/gtk-applications-are-super-slow-at-startup/166540 The Arch discussion is very similar, as we are both using i3 launched with startx. The Arch discussion pointed to their

bug#48910: Very slow startup of GTK+ applications

2021-06-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 06:34:59PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > Here is another strace log, for gnome-calculator. And another, but with less abbreviation. It pauses at line 3775: -- 3757 [pid 10717] poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout) 3758 [pid 10717] poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}

bug#48910: Very slow startup of GTK+ applications

2021-06-07 Thread Leo Famulari
Here is another strace log, for gnome-calculator. It pauses at line 3755: -- 3738 [pid 10510] poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout) 3739 [pid 10510] poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 1 ([{fd=5, revents=POLLIN}]) 3740 [pid 10510] recvmsg(5, {msg_name=NULL, msg_namelen=0, msg_

bug#48910: Very slow startup of GTK+ applications

2021-06-07 Thread Leo Famulari
For the last couple months, I've noticed that GTK+ applications can be very slow to start on my Guix / Debian system. It may take up to a minute before they finish launching. Here's an strace log of 'mousepad' startup. The pause occurs at line 3638, and then resumes after the the timeout is reache