From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 20 16:17:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146E916A425 for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 16:17:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9CB43D5C for ; Sat, 20 May 2006 16:17:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from localhost (monrovll-cuda1-24-53-251-44.pittpa.adelphia.net [24.53.251.44]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Sat, 20 May 2006 12:17:42 -0400 id 00056407.446F4126.0000FB21 Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 12:17:41 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Levi Campbell" Message-Id: <20060520121741.8185431e.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4a202ad70605192021y7c9b8c4fye9925183d5c27393@mail.gmail.com> References: <4a202ad70605192021y7c9b8c4fye9925183d5c27393@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Software taking a long time to load on FreeBSD6 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: Sat, 20 May 2006 16:17:46 -0000 On Fri, 19 May 2006 21:21:19 -0600 "Levi Campbell" wrote: > Why is it that some applications like x11, ratpoison, and firefox come up > instantly while applications like xmms, emacs and thunderbird take about > five minutes to load? I've tried several things to try and fix this. > > > - I've deinstalled packages to see if ports was any better and vice > versa. > - I've cleaned out /tmp, /var/tmp, and /var/lock and checked free > space. > - getting the vanilla sources from the origional FTP site and > compiling them > > I've tried everything I can think of and I'm wondering, why is this > happening and what can I do to fix it? Thanks for your time and > consideration. Have you tried manually starting the slow processes under ktrace and having a look to see what's taking so long? ktrace output can be a little cryptic, but you don't have to understand all of it, and you can always post the relevent parts to the list and ask for help. Start the process with ktrace enabled, if it seems to "hang" for a while, stop the ktrace and the end part should give some indication of what the holdup is. If the process just takes a long time, it'll require some more work to diagnose what's takin so long. HTH -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com