On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:34:26 -0400, Jack Dodds wrote: > Thanks to those who commented. > > I tried /etc/init.d/networking stop . When this is done, programs > launch without delay. Of course, this makes it impossible for any > program to access the Internet so it's not a solution!
Nope, not a solution, this was just for testing pruposes :-) > However, taking gedit as an example, > > Normal operation - Internet accessible - gedit launches in 2 seconds. > External problem - Internet inaccessible - gedit takes 60 seconds to > launch. > Internal shutdown of networking - gedit launches in 2 seconds. > > Maybe this means something, but I am not sure what. When sutting down the network service you are telling the applications: "hey, there is no network available, so don't bother going online". > I also found NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher daemons > running. > > I tried /etc/init.d/network-manager stop which eliminated one - I > killed the other. This had no effect on the symptoms - gedit and other > still take 60 seconds ot launch. > > I also found 8 instances of nfsd and one instance of nfsd4 running. > Tried to kill -9 all of them. This had no effect. > > Any other suggestions? By Googling around I found this (comment #5): Gnome slow loading apps, yet fine once load http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/gnome-slow-loading-apps-yet-fine-once-load-574196/ This is indeed in the line of what Liam suggested, so try and check if you experience any improvement. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.05.15.58...@gmail.com
