From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 03:23:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C25516A403 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 03:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ruggeri@uchicago.edu) Received: from relay00.uchicago.edu (relay00.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082C013C428 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 03:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ruggeri@uchicago.edu) Received: from m4500-02.uchicago.edu (m4500-02.uchicago.edu [128.135.249.217]) by relay00.uchicago.edu (8.13.8/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l282vQwx009799 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:57:27 -0600 (CST) Received: (from m4500-02.uchicago.edu [128.135.249.215]) by m4500-02.uchicago.edu (MOS 3.8.3-GA) with HTTP/1.1 id AKZ27933 (AUTH ruggeri@uchicago.edu); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:57:26 -0600 (CST) From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Mirapoint Webmail Direct 3.8.3-GA MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20070307205726.AKZ27933@m4500-02.uchicago.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:57:26 -0600 (CST) Subject: Problem Launching Applications in Gnome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:23:18 -0000 Hi, I haven't been able to figure this out, and am hoping someone has some ideas. I can't seem to find any previous mention of a similar problem, so I hope I'm not missing something obvious. I run FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. I also have installed GNOME 2.16.3. I use Gnome-Terminal 2.16.1. The main application I run is Vim, which I run through Gnome- Terminal. I frequently have several copies running simultaneously. In general response to Gnome-Terminal commands is very fast, but sometimes when I try to open a file with Vim it takes up to 20-30 seconds to load. The files are not particularly large (max 300 lines). During this time, if I try to launch another application in Gnome (e.g., Opera or another Gnome-Terminal), it will not come up. It is as if everything is frozen until finally Vi loads and opens the file, at which point anything else I have tried to open works fine. While this loading takes place, I can work in any other open application normally. Oftentimes I have another Vim session which I am editing in. I have of course looked at top when this problem occurs. CPU usage is about 2%, and there is no significant memory usage either. I never experience this problem outside Gnome, whether I'm using screen or several virtual terminals. It's really strange. Anyway, I hope someone out there has some ideas. Thanks very much in advance. -- Ned Ruggeri PS I'll include my ~/.vimrc file: autocmd! set nocompatible syntax on set showmatch set number set backspace=2 autocmd BufRead *.c set cindent