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Subject:    [sylpheed:23300] Re: What does Sylpheed do at start-up (delay)?
From:       David Feldman <wb0gaz () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2004-08-04 16:24:41
Message-ID: 20040804102441.E51BD760.wb0gaz () hotmail ! com
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On the two replies (thanks very much!) - here is info:

Bill - The delay is repeatable, however, I don't see such delay in 
startup of another GTK based application I use (the Dillo browser, 
which admittedly has somewhat fewer widgets, but starts without any 
perceptible delay even on my older, 133 MHz Omnibook, and it does use 
GTK+). I guess my interest was if it is a widget rendering issue or 
some kind of DNS/hostname or other networking lookup it's doing at 
start time (I haven't looked at the code.) Your idea of keeping older 
machines to test code is a good one - I used to keep old 4.7 MHz 8088 
machines around to test once I got my first speedburner - a 20 MHz 
386 box.

Roger - I am not using KDE *OR* GNOME - this machine is set up to use 
Motif Window Manager only, and I launch from a command prompt. Are 
there any hooks/dependencies into KDE or GNOME that might manifest as 
a delay, rather than failure of a RPM install? As I have only 80M RAM 
I was concerned that the machine would be on the disc swap excessively,
 but the disc isn't getting accessed during this delay period. The "
couple of seconds" start is what I was expecting to see, maybe a bit 
longer owing to 166 vs 200 MHz.

Tks,

Dave


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