Re: [gentoo-user] strange delays with Xorg-x11-7.4-r1

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 17 November 2009 23:56:00 Philip Webb wrote:
> 091112 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 12 November 2009 00:40:16 Alex Schuster wrote:
> >> Philip Webb writes:
> >>> There is a problem somewhere & it mb a small fix for my machine
> >>> & it wb nice to track it down if others are not experiencing it.
> >>
> >> Try 'strace xterm' in a terminal with long scrollback history, ...
>
> Or better, use the '-o outputfile' option.
>
> >> ... press Enter a couple of times when it hangs
> >> and analyze the output at these positions later.
> >
> > I did that earlier just for fun. The output is huge :-)
> >
>  > 2400 lines  when I did it with the same result as yours.
> >
> > I see here that while xterm is starting, the output stutters quite a lot
> > and each time there is a "resource unavailable" message just before.
> > It's trying to read fd3 which turns out to be the Unix socket in  /tmp .
>
> Yes, there are  3  lock file/dirs there :
>
>   root:527 tmp> ls -la
>   total 5
>   drwxrwxrwt  7 root    root    200 2009-11-17 16:41 .
>   drwxr-xr-x 23 root    root    560 2009-07-04 05:53 ..
>   drwxrwxrwt  2 root    root     88 2009-11-17 12:50 .ICE-unix
>   drwx------  3 purslow purslow 192 2009-11-17 16:30 kde-purslow
>   drwx------  2 purslow purslow 240 2009-11-17 16:32 ksocket-purslow
>   -r--r--r--  1 root    purslow  11 2009-11-17 12:47 .X0-lock
>   drwxrwxrwt  2 root    root     72 2009-11-17 12:47 .X11-unix
>
> Are you using Nvidia ? -- someone else mentioned that as a possible cause.

Yes, nvidia-190.42-r3

I've noticed recently that kdm takes looooooong to start - more than 30 
seconds, and xterm is still taking over 3 seconds to load.

I'll try downgrade nvidia tomorrow when I have a chance and see what happens

>
> Otherwise, does anyone have further suggestions ?
>

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