Re: TO ALL: Long application startup time
I've been dealing with this problem for about a month (maybe
shorter/longer... I've a bad memory for dates). It has gotten to the
point that my NFS-mounted home directories cannot be used with KDE,
because Konqueror locks up other critical kde apps, like kmail. Is there
any way to configure kde or konq and friends to use /tmp or some alternate
directory for temporary lock files? I haven't booted into kde for longer
than 30 minutes because I can't even get my e-mail through kmail for about
10 minutes after the desktop has loaded.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 02:40 pm, Jens Benecke wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 06:38:54PM -0700, Mircea Luca wrote:
> > Jens Benecke wrote:
> > > Hi,
>
> (etc)
>
> first, thanks for the many replies. It seems I'm not alone here, which
> is a good feeling. So I'll share my discoveries. ;)
>
>
> After I found out that on a K5-133 (i.e. 486!) with 80MB RAM we use as
> a web station (and print server) KDE starts in 30 seconds, but Konqueror
> is up in <3 seconds (!), I became angry and looked more closely at my
> configuration.
>
> It seems that KDE keeps deleting and recreating a really large amount of
> files in the .kde/ directory. For example in .kde/share/config, I found
> over 400 (!) .nfs* style "orphaned NFS files" (i.e. files that were
> deleted by a NFS client but couldn't be physically deleted by the NFS
> server yet because of locking problems).
>
> Additionally, I found about 200 files that seemed to be backups of some
> config files. Then, I found a 13 MB kio_http cache although I run a
> local proxy and have caching turned OFF in Konqueror.
>
> Last, I found the old "bookmarks" files, and it seems that Konqueror is
> still reading those, because after I deleted THOSE and restarted KDE,
> Konqueror was _much_ quicker to come up than before.
>
>
> So, to summarize:
>
> - KDE creates LOTS of .nfs* orphans when $HOME = NFS
>
> - KDE doesn't delete old bookmarks and (probably) still reads them
>
> - KDE doesn't keep track of old config files that are no longer
> active and on ext2 and especially NFS file systems it makes a
> difference whether you have 100 or 1000 files in one directory.
>
>
> Nevertheless, I think there is still room for optimization in Konqueror
> itself. Some other browsers use half the CPU and still take half the
> time to render complex HTML tables (e.g. Opera). Does anybody of the
> 2.2alpha users feel that Konqueror's rendering engine has sped up
> noticeably?
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