Slow Gnome....

Noticed that Gnome desktop is slowing down, did have Openbox running under it but terminals were taking forever to open
Apps are now getting slower to open now
Has anyone noticed this?
Sorry if I do not have any more info, not sure where to look
TIA

i do have noticed it a little less responsive lately, im wondering if configuration files should be deleted after the upgrade to 2.20?
compared to gnome under ubuntu in a qemu-kvm virtual machine, gnome under archlinux is relatively a little less responsive opening applications... this is probably due to ubuntu's optimized caching and linking mechanisms... maybe....

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Hello everyone!
I'm not sure if this is the right section, but I am a begginner after all, so I guess my doubts fit here
Q1: I installed and configured my Arch install on a pretty good machine, but I dont feel I'm getting all of it. I feel usage is a bit slow in launching applications such as Firefox or Nautilus.
I am using Openbox with some GNOME apps mainly.
Q2: Also, may be an unrelated matter, but the TTYs feel slow, and they're slow to display text, having a line-by-line effect.
Specifications
CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2,66GHz@3,20GHz
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6
Memory - 4 x Kingston HyperX 1GB 1066MHz DDR2
Q3: What should I do to make sure that all cores are being well-used, what are some packages I could compile locally that would enhance my performance?
Thank you in advance!
Last edited by adelgado (2009-10-20 00:56:47)

flamelab wrote:
What's your graphics' card and which driver did you install ?
Have you read the GNOME wiki and that thing about slow GNOME and the configuration of /etc/hosts ?
My graphic card is a XFX NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT. I don't quite remember how I installed it, but I believe I followed this guide: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nvidia
Also,
elros@blackpearl:~$ sudo pacman -Qs nvidia
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NVIDIA drivers for kernel26.
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hello,
I have been using arch for a few years now and have been very happy with it, bar for one recurring problem that i have yet to fix.
during data transfers i suffer extremely slow system response times.
i have looked in the forum already and found a few threads. but have yet to actually find a solution.
example is when i have begun a data transfer of files from one hard drive to another. of any size from 4GB to 1000GB(many files usually from 200MB to 8GB in size)
i have tried ionice on transfers but has not seemed to make system any more responsive. ive had this problem initially on NTFS mounted drives transfering between other NTFS drives.
Recently i decided to scrap NTFS as it has been a long time since i have used the drives directly on a windows machine.
I am still experiencing the problem on EXT4 drives.
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1x1000GB SATA WD WD10EACS-00D6B0(NTFS) /dev/sde1
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I am currently changing over all drives to ext4 and am doing them one by one to allow for transferring data off and on again.
atm i am transferring off of one drive onto a free ext4 drive to allow me to convert the ntfs to ext4.
and am suffering this sluggishness. although i am doing the transfer in 50gb chunks. which seems to lower the pain.(although it may be in my head)
example of slowness. gnome-do takes 5-10seconds to appear where is would normally take less than ~1 second
opening pcmanfm takes around 5-10seconds also to open.(normally ~1s)
firefox may open within 10-20seconds whereas normally ~2-3s.
everything that i interact with is fairly slow. taking anywhere from 5s to 30+s to responde to my actions.
many times programs will claim unresponsive and will want to force quit. everything returns to speedy mc-speed-sys when data transfer finishes.
so hopefully anyone out there may be able to help me. as mentioned i have checked existing threads. *although i may have missed something.
i have tried swapoff(which seems to help the most, but it is still sluggish), tried different schedulers.anticipatory vs cfq, but that did little that i could tell.
transfer rates on these drives seem good. getting as high at 110MB/s read and about 80/90MB/s write.
io attempted to use ionice. but the problem still persisted. unless i was using it incorrectly..
hopefully someone out there has succeeded where i have not...
*i have had this problem since i first installed this system, i cant remember what kernel version that was on . but its been about 1 year + maybe a year and a half.
is there anybody else out there who has experienced/is experiencing the same probllems..?
*edit. using mix of xfce + lxde + compiz + gdm
Last edited by something (2010-03-27 10:31:56)

For me it's Virtualbox. It uses kswapd even though I have tried to get rid of it for other processes by disabling swap.
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kernel26 2.6.32
I have used -ck for a week when it was first out, I don't remember exactly how that went, but I'm pretty sure it had some kswapd hits as well.
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EDIT2: Don't remove kswapd! It worked well for a while but when I launched Virtualbox some really weird stuff happened.
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Lately GNOME is very slow in opening apps, many applications fail or stop responding. On occasion everything freezes to where all I can do is move the mouse. But no key strokes or mouse clicks register.

geek.arnuld wrote:
azwethinkweiz wrote:Lately GNOME is very slow in opening apps, many applications fail or stop responding. On occasion everything freezes to where all I can do is move the mouse. But no key strokes or mouse clicks register.
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Thanks, I did that, but didn't help much. Firefox, Terminal and Liferea etc is still slower to start than they were a few days ago (I feel it's gradually getting slower over time)..
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