A couple of annoying F8t3 things

[John Summerfield]

Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 08:50 +0100, Caolan McNamara wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 16:56 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>>> I've noticed two annoying issues in f8t3.
>>>
>>> 1. Applications seems to take quite a while to 'appear' on the desktop.
>>> After clicking an application on the panel (gedit, gnome-terminal, etc)
>>> it takes about 10 secs for them to appear on the desktop.
>>>
>>> 2. Evolution (particularly compose) seems to 'pause' for 10 seconds or
>>> so every now and then and it becomes unresponsive.  Makes typing emails
>>> a pain in the bum (and I've seen it three times in this short email.)
>>>
>>> I'm going to bz these, but we wondering if others have seen this too.
>> I've sometimes seen stuff like that happen with slightly busted
>> networking or something, i.e. strace -f gedit from a terminal and see if
>> it is blocking a long time on /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX and compare startup
>> time of apps before after after deleting /tmp/.ICE-unix/XXXX
>>
> <snip>
> access("/home/rodd/.ICEauthority", R_OK) = 0
> open("/home/rodd/.ICEauthority", O_RDONLY) = 11
> fstat64(11, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=65366, ...}) = 0
> mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
> 0) = 0xb7cb6000
> read(11, "\0\4XSMP\0\0\0\35unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-un"..., 4096) = 4096
> close(11)                               = 0
> munmap(0xb7cb6000, 4096)                = 0
> write(10, "\0\4\1\0\3\0\0\0\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\f+v($c\347x\204R\351\236
> \02689\351", 32) = 32
> read(10, "\0\10\0\1\3\0\0\0", 8)        = 8
> read(10, "\7\0GnomeSM\0001.\6\0002.20.13301", 24) = 24
> write(10, "\1\1\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 16) = 16
> read(10, <snip>
> 
> There's a big pause at this point.  Is this what you expect?

What's 10 pointing at? Go back to the open/connect.

Possibly something's trying to do a DNS lookup, and timing out (that 
would give ten seconds, or a higher multiple).
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> R.
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>> C.
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John

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