[K12OSN] Performance issue and question

[george kocke]

On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 11:42, Dean Weiten wrote:

> That is, it takes an awfully long time for any given selected program to
> load.  In some cases, I can wait up to 5 or 10 seconds, just to load a shell
> (Xterm or whatever).  You can sometimes click on an item, and the disk isn't
> accessed for 3 to 5 seconds.

I had a similar issue with certain programs like xterm and emacs a
couple of years ago. I somehow discovered that these programs were
taking forever to start when xfs was not running. Starting xfs fixed the
problem and I've never looked any deeper into it.

-- 
george kocke <webmaster at vol.org>


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