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List:       kde-solaris
Subject:    Re: [kde-solaris] very long delays in starting applications etc.
From:       Eva Brucherseifer <eva () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-06-19 7:36:37
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On Wednesday 19 June 2002 01:24, Michael Mounteney wrote:
> A problem which has always afflicted my KDE installations.  Delays of
> sometimes a minute or more in opening applications, or even in apparently
> random freezes.  This happened with Sun-supplied KDE 2.2.1 and 2.2.2
> packages, and is now affecting Eva's kindly-supplied 3.0.1 packages.
>
> KDE is using Qt 3.0.4 downloaded direct from Trolltech.

The issue with Qt 3.0.4 is known, that is why I supplied Qt 3.0.3, the correct 
options for configuration can be found in the file 'BuildInstructions'.
 
Another reason for delays might be a very long LD_LIBRARY_PATH env variable 
with paths on slow filesystems. You might want to customize crle (use 'man 
crle' to learn more).

Greetings,
eva

>
> Qt was compiled with GCC 3.1 from sunfreeware.com.
>
> Qt was configured with:
>
> ./configure -prefix /opt/qt3 -thread -platform solaris-g++
> -no-g++-exceptions -qt-gif
>
> A couple of examples:
>
> (1) clicking on the `home' icon in the panel, the delay is about 50 seconds
> before the folder is displayed.
> (2) right-clicking on a small file (5.3 Kb) and selecting `edit with Kate',
> the kate window appears in about 35 seconds and the file is drawn in the
> window about 30 seconds later.
> (3) as above but selecting KWrite brings up the file in about 20 seconds.
>
> The machine is a 300 MHz Ultra 10 with 640 Mb RAM and is doing nothing
> else, i.e., it is not a server but is my personal workstation.
>
> My home directory is NFS-mounted but a local home drive does not seem to be
> any faster.
>
> All the while that the delays are occuring, non-KDE activity (e.g., big
> `make' jobs running in Konsole) continue at `normal' speed.
>
> The window manager is unaffected, as one can (for example) shade and
> unshade windows.
>
> My startup line is `exec startkde >/tmp/kde-log 2>/tmp/kde-err' but tailing
> /tmp/kde-err does not show anything unusual or suspicious.
>
> These delays have always been there but they are worse I would say with
> 3.0.1 than with 2.2.2.  If anyone could suggest ways of getting rid of them
> I would be extremely grateful.

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