SO refusing to start

[Joel Hammer]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:16:21PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I get 15 seconds until the progress box shows, and then an additional 20
> seconds until the editor is up. This when running KDE and Evolution at
> the same time on:
> 
> 	1.4 GHz P4 with 256 MB RAM and oddles of swap.
> 
> The start a second time takes 15 seconds.
> 
> Oddly, all my windows seems to be slow to start lately. It is not a DNS
> thing (as I can see) as I can resolve an address immediately. I suspect
> too little RAM. But the slowness did not come about after any obvious
> upgrade. This is on an up-to-date Gentoo system. No funny optimizations.j
> My wife is starting to make snide remarks...


With SO 7, a cold start is 10 secs, a repeat start is
6 secs.  

I have a cheap Duron 1 GHz with 645 megs. (Memory is cheap
these days.)

Is is possible that all that swap memory is slowing
things down?

SO 6 on an almost identical computer with 256 megs takes
about two to three times as long to start.


Joel