Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 12:12:30 -0500 (CDT) From: "Tim Welch" <twelch@thepentagon.org> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preferences slow to appear Message-ID: <60715.65.7.255.129.1154797950.squirrel@mail.thepentagon.org> In-Reply-To: <1154782466.82081.4.camel@hellion.clcw> References: <20060805120038.AE59F16A501@hub.freebsd.org> <1154782466.82081.4.camel@hellion.clcw>
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>> With almost any GNOME application, opening the preferences window >> seems to take around 80-90% cpu (from gkrellm) and freeze GNOME for >> approximately 2-3 seconds on my machine. Everything from gnome-weather >> to xchat does it. There are no strange themes or other oddities about my >> setup. I've tried a clean user as well. I also notice a distinct pause >> whenever rhythmbox changes tracks. It lags the mouse cursor and any >> video output (i.e.. moving a window while the track is changing will blur >> that window, then reappear normally after rhythmbox is done). What could >> possibly cause these? Some slowness with whatever library reads gconf is >> all I can think of for the preferences problem, but what about rhythmbox? >> >> >> System Stats: P4 2.8Ghz HT, 2GB ram, SATA drives on an intel 875 >> chipset Freebsd 6.1-STABLE from ~ July 23, 2006 >> Latest ports as of Aug. 1st >> >> >> -Tim >> > > > There's been trouble with this since we got 2.14. > One thing to try is to rebuild all of GNOME + Dependencies (This has > worked for me) An easier way is to search the mailing list. There should be > a tip about rebuilding your icon cache (Look at May/June, maybe earlier). > If this > doesn't work, rebuild. I'd like to be more precise about the icon cache, > but I'm running late once again and can't search for it myself. > > Good luck. > -- > Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner > lopisaur@gmail.com PGP ID: 483EA9B6 > (+591-705)98290 > > I have rebuilt the icon caches and this is a clean install. I believe this is a different problem because it _only_ affects preferences windows as far as I can tell. -Tim
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