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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Debugging plasma / KIO slowdown?
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-09-19 22:39:18
Message-ID: 200809191639.25578.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Friday 19 September 2008, Thomas Reitelbach wrote:
> 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).

no, it turns it that it was (wait for it .. wait for it ..) the binary nvidia 
driver.

*sigh*

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