From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 12:14:20 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22EF51065675 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:14:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9545D8FC12 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so693854fxm.13 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:14:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=LeAsu4pD7oFDPa1mp8AUR/kp92sfqWoDv5yxyJMDYUc=; b=i8t+PrDatsnVdJwTdAzR+z/u2cB6+jGHET0nl8yiVkjgpecIJRxqSlp7bNQOHJQTSM Drb3UA2omgI7LnLcIqGDvTtgL3jqYHeTxIh6iCa3ckjiPgt2D+Y7YSbdBP8bky3hCWpv x2mWobBHui+nkUpNKu36pTmNYB22I/+QKX3o4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=Ymy9FVPy4M+a8Ywe3qxVXdYaDoEF/wt9wejPl+piypObAz1u7Unbo4QbkFVdxSJqf7 cYHl5Y8FhmbVGnYnWoCELNIr8yXSv5W10mfBXdlnMiAATKhPqw2UOoEDz+XDUsBNUQHz 0scCwhDWWNyRae1yrWDJ4GOZgHziHIX/RlFYA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.181.193 with SMTP id n1mr4423hbg.162.1276172058397; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.239.132.194 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:14:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100610111820.GA58452@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20100610111820.GA58452@aurora.oekb.co.at> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:14:18 -0400 Message-ID: From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk To: Ewald Jenisch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome startup awfully slow (7.3, gnome2.30) 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, 10 Jun 2010 12:14:20 -0000 On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Ewald Jenisch 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