From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 18:54:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F68916A402 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 18:54:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 060E013C481 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 18:54:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay8.apple.com (relay8.apple.com [17.128.113.38]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l28IsuOv003183; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:54:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay8.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay8.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 4F12540514; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:54:56 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807126-a2f9ebb0000007dd-8e-45f05c00eb9e Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay8.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 37918404F5; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:54:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20070307205726.AKZ27933@m4500-02.uchicago.edu> References: <20070307205726.AKZ27933@m4500-02.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:54:55 -0800 To: ruggeri@uchicago.edu X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem Launching Applications in Gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:54:57 -0000 On Mar 7, 2007, at 6:57 PM, ruggeri@uchicago.edu wrote: > The main application I run is Vim, which I run through Gnome- > Terminal. I frequently have several copies running > simultaneously. In general response to Gnome-Terminal > commands is very fast, but sometimes when I try to open a > file with Vim it takes up to 20-30 seconds to load. The > files are not particularly large (max 300 lines). > > During this time, if I try to launch another application in > Gnome (e.g., Opera or another Gnome-Terminal), it will not > come up. It is as if everything is frozen until finally Vi > loads and opens the file, at which point anything else I have > tried to open works fine. Is it possible that you're low on RAM, and the system has to swap in a bunch of stuff to let you task-switch to Opera or GT? Is it only the combination of GT & Vim, or do you sometimes encounter this long delay when switching between applications doing other things? > I have of course looked at top when this problem occurs. CPU > usage is about 2%, and there is no significant memory usage > either. It would be helpful to know what state the GT & vim processes were in, too. -- -Chuck