Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.9.5 VERY slow to respond

[Francisco Ares]

2013/1/31 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>

> Howdy,
>
> I upgraded to the latest KDE a bit ago.  I update about twice a week,
> depending on what is going on and what is released.  Anyway, KDE has
> become just dead dog slow.  Just to login takes a couple minutes.  If I
> click to open a KDE app, it takes a long time.  If I click on the
> kicker/panel thingy at the bottom, it takes forever, even clicking on
> the K menu takes a minute or more for the menu to pop up.  Also, when it
> freezes, the clock stops as well.  It seems something is hung up or
> something.  I also noticed that klipper is missing as is kmix for the
> volume control in the kicker/panel thingy at the bottom.  If I try to
> manually start them, I get nothing even if I wait for a good long
> while.  Also, while in a Konsole, within KDE so note the K there, if I
> try to copy/paste something, it locks up Konsole tight as a drum.  It
> has yet to ever come back.  I can't even switch tabs.  Also, while I
> generally click on the panel at the bottom to switch desktops, this
> doesn't work when it is froze or stuck.  I can however use the function
> keys to switch.
>
> When I login, the hard drive activity light on the case is very quiet.
> It is normally on solidly when I login since it is reading data but now
> it is pretty much dark all the time.
>
> What I have done so far.  Renamed .kde4 and tried a new .kde4
> directory.  No change.  I did a emerge -e world with, no change.  I have
> also checked the CPU and memory with htop and it shows nothing outside
> the norm that I can see.  I have also went to the boot runlevel. killed
> anything that shouldn't be there and then went back to default runlevel.
>
> This started yesterday.  I did my usual update and logged out and back
> in since checkrestart showed several programs using old configs/programs
> etc.  After that, it got real slow.  The biggest update was qt and all
> its friends.  Sort of hard to tell right now since I can't get Konsole
> to work right and I can't copy and paste either. lol
>
> I was going to try to downgrade KDE to the previous version, it appears
> to be gone now.  I guess my only other option is to upgrade again with a
> version from a overlay. This is not something I want to do tho.
>
> Has anyone else ran into this?  Anyone got any ideas on how to track it
> down?  It's going to be a week before another upgrade and this is
> getting on my nerves.  ;-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
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>
>
>
Hello,

When i saw your message, it was something of a relief, I was even thinking
about a hardware problem, sometimes it freezes for so long and so much it
even doesn't allow me to switch to one of the consoles. Sometimes I could
not wait, and just reset the computer.

Now I know it might be something else besides hardware (I have run Memtest+
for more than 24h and nothing showed up).

Francisco

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