X slow startup

[Rick Stevens]

Alberto Cardinalli Jr. wrote:
>>>lwj wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:52, Alberto Cardinalli Jr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>I know that problems with NVIDIA drivers and other stuff aren't the
>>>>>focus of this list, but I really tried everything that I saw in NVIDIA
>>>>>discussion forum, nothing resolved my problem and NVIDIA don't give us
>>>>>an answer. So I think that someone can help me with some hint. In my
>>>>>machine X startup takes about 30 seconds, but when I had an old kernel
>>>>>and driver versions(nvidia:4496/kernel:2129), it was normal. 
>>>>>
>>>>>My machine:
>>>>>
>>>>>Video Card: Riva TNT2 32Mb RAM PCI
>>>>>Driver Version: 1.0-5336
>>>>>Distribution: Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl)
>>>>>Video Bios Revision: 02.05.19.03.00
>>>>>Processor: AMD XP2000+ 
>>>>>Motherboard: Asus A7V8X
>>>>>Memory: 512Mb DDR400
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I don't think that this is an issue with the video driver. I am using
>>>>similar card (Riva TNT2 with 32 MB of ram AGP) I am running on a slower
>>>>machine with the same amount of ram and I do not have any problems with
>>>>graphics performance. For 2D drawing I would not expect the AGP/PCI to
>>>>make that much of a difference in the performance. There must be
>>>>something else going on here.
>>>
>>>Is this slow startup invoked from boot or from doing something like
>>>"startx" or "telinit 5"?  If it's not from boot, do an "uptime" before
>>>you invoke the command and see if the load is high.  You may have some
>>>background process sucking up a lot of resources (updatedb comes to mind
>>>right away).
> 
> 
> I invoke X using 'startx', i did an uptime and that's my load average:
> 0.41, 0.15, 0.06.

That's a fairly husky load for a single-user machine.  You should do
a "ps -ax", "ps -ef" or "top" and see what's sucking up all that CPU.

> As I said before, even booting with an older kernel and reinstalling an
> older version of the driver, the problem continues. I've tried
> everything of NVIDIA's FAQ's and forums with no success. I posted a
> question there but they didn't answer.

This isn't a driver/kernel/whatever problem...you have some process
that's eating up CPU cycles and slowing down the startup.  Look at
the first process listed in the "top" report and see why it's using
up all your CPU.
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