Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:47:06 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome 2.14 is as slow as molasses ... Message-ID: <20060607174706.91DC545043@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2006 13:43:45 %2B0200." <000001c68a27$a226b080$2101a8c0@ZGISH>
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> From: "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> > Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 13:43:45 +0200 > Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org > > Ever since I upgraded from Gnome 2.12 to 2.14 on top of FreeBSD 6.1, > I've > been disappointed with the VERY slow performance of the Gnome Desktop. > > Not only is it very sluggish in general, but most applications take > anywhere > from 30-60 secs to start. > > I thought that Gnome 2.14 was supposed to have all these exceptional > performance tweaks, but for some reason my system is doing the exact > opposite. > > Can anyone help me? This sounds like what I had after the upgrade. I re-installed all ports to fix it, but that is rather painful. If you look in the archives of this list, there is a posting with a shell script to rebuild the icon cache and that is reported to fix the problem. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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