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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Debugging plasma / KIO slowdown?
From:       Thomas Reitelbach <tr () erdfunkstelle ! de>
Date:       2008-09-19 21:23:52
Message-ID: 200809192323.58739.tr () erdfunkstelle ! de
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On Donnerstag, 18. September 2008, Kris Moore wrote:
> Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 September 2008, Kris Moore wrote:
> >> Hopefully somebody can help me debug this here.
> >>
> >> I'm running KDE 4.1.1 on PC-BSD 7, which seems to run pretty well,
> >> except for some slowdowns and responsiveness from the interface. In
> >> particular, when a user clicks to launch a program from
> >> FolderView/plasma, there seems to be anywhere from a 1-3 second delay
> >
> > if you open konqueror or dolphin and load desktop:/ and then open one of
> > the .desktop files there, do you see the same delay?
>
> I tried that, and they open properly when run from konqeuror / dolphin,
> within milliseconds again :) Its only when clicking things on the
> desktop itself that I see the slowdown. The systems I'm testing on are
> also pretty fast, all dual-core, with plenty of ram, no compositing or
> anything enabled, just going for speed.
>
> Also of note, it appears that it doesn't matter what we try to launch
> from the desktop. I'm even using the konsole plasmiod, and when I bring
> up a session from it on my desktop, the same 1-3 second delay applies.
> Also, in folderview, just clicking an icon takes it 1-3 seconds to take
> effect, where as the mouse-over highlighting works instantly.

I remember a very similar problem I had a few years ago. I was missing the 
network loopback device (lo), which caused a delay similar to your 
description. (Well actually not the device was missing, but the firewall 
blocked all lo-traffic).

Just a thought ...
Thomas

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