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[196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cu7sm14928962wib.8.2013.01.31.05.02.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:02:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:01:16 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.9.5 VERY slow to respond Message-ID: <20130131150116.5f22221f@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <510A5B56.90602@gmail.com> References: <510A5B56.90602@gmail.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fe85e4fd-210e-4479-a793-12f1e321b09c X-Archives-Hash: c2366e95c95140093ea4ef596cb4ffd7 On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:53:58 -0600 Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I upgraded to the latest KDE a bit ago. I update about twice a week, > depending on what is going on and what is released. Anyway, KDE has > become just dead dog slow. Just to login takes a couple minutes. If > I click to open a KDE app, it takes a long time. If I click on the > kicker/panel thingy at the bottom, it takes forever, even clicking on > the K menu takes a minute or more for the menu to pop up. Also, when > it freezes, the clock stops as well. It seems something is hung up or > something. I also noticed that klipper is missing as is kmix for the > volume control in the kicker/panel thingy at the bottom. If I try to > manually start them, I get nothing even if I wait for a good long > while. Also, while in a Konsole, within KDE so note the K there, if I > try to copy/paste something, it locks up Konsole tight as a drum. It > has yet to ever come back. I can't even switch tabs. Also, while I > generally click on the panel at the bottom to switch desktops, this > doesn't work when it is froze or stuck. I can however use the > function keys to switch. > > When I login, the hard drive activity light on the case is very > quiet. It is normally on solidly when I login since it is reading > data but now it is pretty much dark all the time. > > What I have done so far. Renamed .kde4 and tried a new .kde4 > directory. No change. I did a emerge -e world with, no change. I > have also checked the CPU and memory with htop and it shows nothing > outside the norm that I can see. I have also went to the boot > runlevel. killed anything that shouldn't be there and then went back > to default runlevel. > > This started yesterday. I did my usual update and logged out and back > in since checkrestart showed several programs using old > configs/programs etc. After that, it got real slow. The biggest > update was qt and all its friends. Sort of hard to tell right now > since I can't get Konsole to work right and I can't copy and paste > either. lol > > I was going to try to downgrade KDE to the previous version, it > appears to be gone now. I guess my only other option is to upgrade > again with a version from a overlay. This is not something I want to > do tho. > > Has anyone else ran into this? Anyone got any ideas on how to track > it down? It's going to be a week before another upgrade and this is > getting on my nerves. ;-) Can you log into a vt and tail ~/.xsession-errors and see anything useful in there? I use a vt for this so konsole is not in the mix while trying to tail stuff. I've historically found that lockups of around 30 seconds are so are often DNS lookup failures, and lockups of 1-2 minutes are often IO timeouts (in my case usually nfs or smb mounts that went away when I did something stupid hehehehe ) You can also try stracing the kdeinit process to see what they are doing and where they are blocking. With KDE it's a lot harder to find the process to trace (there are so *many* process), sorting top on the "S" column can help - look for stuff listed as "D" in that column. While we discuss KDE, any idea why my panel will occasionally stop receiving mouse events and updates occasionally after coming out of suspend? When this happnes, the clock stops ticking. Very annoying.... -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com