Re: [expert] KDE 3 disk thrashing
On Sunday 05 May 2002 3:33 am, John Haywood wrote: On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:10, Alastair Scott wrote: There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can define quite precisely. not just KDE3 if I'm right. If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say a .tar.gz) then select 'Save Link As ...' there's _enormous_ hard disk thrashing before the file save dialog appears. I also notice the same effect when I do 'Open ...' from KDE 3 applications (eg ark and kwrite); it often takes a minute or two for the file open dialog to appear. Finally, there's a lot of disk thrashing between entering the username and password and the KDE 3 splash screen appearing. Do you have automount enabled on your box? If so, chkconfig --del automount is your friend No, so it's not that. Inter alia Mozilla doesn't suffer from the same problem, so it seems to be something inside KDE3. I'll keep checking and, for a start, will clear out _every_ cache within .kde3. There may well be something corrupt in one of them ... Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] KDE 3 disk thrashing
There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can define quite precisely. If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say a .tar.gz) then select 'Save Link As ...' there's _enormous_ hard disk thrashing before the file save dialog appears. I also notice the same effect when I do 'Open ...' from KDE 3 applications (eg ark and kwrite); it often takes a minute or two for the file open dialog to appear. Finally, there's a lot of disk thrashing between entering the username and password and the KDE 3 splash screen appearing. Before I enter a bug report: i. Has anyone else experienced this? (KDE 3 was fine to start off with; the problem has only surfaced in the past couple of days); ii. I'm getting lots of entries in .xsession_errors of the form: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/home/thebrix' should not happen in restoreState! An English translation of that would be good ;) The problem is particularly strange given I have 0.5GB of memory ... Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3 disk thrashing
I can't help with your thrashing problem, but I can tell you that if you send to both the expert and newbie lists in the same email, two emails will go only to the first address you listed. In this case, the expert list. So if you want to send to both lists, you have to send two seperate emails. LX On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 07:10, Alastair Scott wrote: There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can define quite precisely. If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say a .tar.gz) then select 'Save Link As ...' there's _enormous_ hard disk thrashing before the file save dialog appears. I also notice the same effect when I do 'Open ...' from KDE 3 applications (eg ark and kwrite); it often takes a minute or two for the file open dialog to appear. Finally, there's a lot of disk thrashing between entering the username and password and the KDE 3 splash screen appearing. Before I enter a bug report: i. Has anyone else experienced this? (KDE 3 was fine to start off with; the problem has only surfaced in the past couple of days); ii. I'm getting lots of entries in .xsession_errors of the form: KDirWatch::removeDir can't handle '/home/thebrix' should not happen in restoreState! An English translation of that would be good ;) The problem is particularly strange given I have 0.5GB of memory ... Alastair -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- °°° Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ °°° Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] KDE 3 disk thrashing
On Saturday 04 May 2002 21:10, Alastair Scott wrote: There seems to be a pretty nasty problem with KDE 3 which I can define quite precisely. not just KDE3 if I'm right. If I press the right mouse button on a downloadable file (say a .tar.gz) then select 'Save Link As ...' there's _enormous_ hard disk thrashing before the file save dialog appears. I also notice the same effect when I do 'Open ...' from KDE 3 applications (eg ark and kwrite); it often takes a minute or two for the file open dialog to appear. Finally, there's a lot of disk thrashing between entering the username and password and the KDE 3 splash screen appearing. Do you have automount enabled on your box? If so, chkconfig --del automount is your friend -- john in sydney = Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 21 hours 18 minutes = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
