Package: steam Version: 1.0.0.51-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Steam takes a rather long time to start. "Steam App" (game) load time may also be subsequently affected, depending on available memory (VFS cache). Inside of the "/usr/games/steam" shell script are the lines: # remove steam-runtime's libstdc++ files, which are incompatible with # newer mesa drivers (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/78242) find $config -name libstdc++.so.6\* -execdir rm -f {} \; Here, $config is "$HOME/.steam", which contains all installed files for all installed games. Scanning that many directories may be rather slow on a cold VFS cache for some filesystems. If the pertinent *.so files are present in only a select few directories, those should be the directories explicitly passed to find. Alternatively, we may be able to forego the check entirely and use some kind of LD_PRELOAD solution. Or we can provide this as bundled script that users can run if needed. Commenting out the "find" line shaved minutes of processing spent looking for this edge-case. * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Start Steam with ~600 GiB of installed games. * What was the outcome of this action? 5+ minutes delay before windows are drawn (compared to less than 3 seconds with the check disabled). * What outcome did you expect instead? Quick startup time. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages steam depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii libc6 2.22-5 ii libgl1-mesa-dri 11.1.2-1 ii libgl1-mesa-glx 11.1.2-1 ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-13 ii libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 [libtxc-dxtn0] 0~git20131104-1.1 ii libudev1 229-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages steam recommends: ii fonts-liberation 1.07.4-1 ii rxvt-unicode-lite [x-terminal-emulator] 9.21-1+b1 ii stterm [x-terminal-emulator] 0.5+20140606+gitc2fd275-1 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 324-1 ii zenity 3.18.1.1-1 Versions of packages steam suggests: pn steam-devices <none> -- debconf information excluded
