Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:14:18 -0400 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome startup awfully slow (7.3, gnome2.30) Message-ID: <AANLkTim8CKgEdvO56YOd28ROSetYjh63I6y5jx76rGux@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100610111820.GA58452@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20100610111820.GA58452@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> wrote: > Hi, > > On my system (FreeBSD 7.3 AMD64, system & kernel current as per today) > it takes awully long to start up gnome (2.30) - "awfully long" meaning > 2-3 minutes (this is on a Intel quadcore-CPU with 4GB RAM!) > > In my /etc/rc.conf I've got > > gnome_enable="YES" > > I've already ruled out the usual suspect being a missing/wrong entry > in /etc/hosts (http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q20); my > hostname ist resolvable including reverse-resolution, plus I've got > the entries in my /etc/hosts. > > Is there any way to speed up gnome startup - or at least a pointer as > to where I can start looking for the cause of the problem? > > Thanks in advance for any clue, > -ewald > One possibility may be that X system is trying to auto-detect your hardware which is taking time . Checking X configuration files and making them conforming to your hardware may eliminate this possibility . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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