| 2007-03-20 10:18:13 |
Conn O Griofa |
bug |
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| 2007-03-20 11:00:05 |
Conn O Griofa |
description |
System Info: Dell Inspiron 510m, Intel Pentium M processor 1500MHz, 256mb ram, Feisty with latest updates.
Having used Feisty as my primary desktop, I noticed that applications take some time to load, even when another instance is already open; for example, gnome-terminal would take 5-10 seconds to load a new window even if another is already open, and without significant application load. Having done some research*, I modified /etc/hosts, changing this line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
to this ('inspiron' being my hostname):
127.0.0.1 localhost inspiron
After this little modification, most gnome applications seem to load much faster and persist in cache longer, so opening another gnome-terminal take usually ~1sec rather than 10 seconds, and other application follow the same pattern.
Steps to reproduce (best noticed with ~256mb ram):
1. On an unmodified Feisty installation, open a gnome-terminal, firefox, totem.
2. Do some moderate browsing to increase firefox memory usage.
3. Open another instance of gnome-terminal & totem, noticing application startup.
4. Edit /etc/hosts as above, repeat steps 1-3.
After this little tweak, applications seem to open much faster and share the system cache more efficiently (with less disk thrashing noticeable). Even my second system (using 1gig of ram) works more efficiently. This issue should be fixed before Feisty's release.
*See here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494659-highlight-.html
Also reported on Ubuntu Forums, user experiences of tweak and explanation can be seen here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2311341 |
System Info: Dell Inspiron 510m, Intel Pentium M processor 1500MHz, 256mb ram, Feisty with latest updates.
Having used Feisty as my primary desktop, I noticed that applications take some time to load, even when another instance is already open; for example, gnome-terminal would take 5-10 seconds to load a new window even if another is already open, and without significant application load. Having done some research*, I modified /etc/hosts, changing this line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
to this ('inspiron' being my hostname):
127.0.0.1 localhost inspiron
After this little modification, most gnome applications seem to load much faster and persist in cache longer, so opening another gnome-terminal take usually ~1sec rather than 10 seconds, and other application follow the same pattern.
Steps to reproduce (best noticed with ~256mb ram):
1. On an unmodified Feisty installation, open a gnome-terminal, firefox, totem.
2. Do some moderate browsing to increase firefox memory usage.
3. Open another instance of gnome-terminal & totem, noticing application startup.
4. Edit /etc/hosts as above, repeat steps 1-3.
After this little tweak, applications seem to open much faster and share the system cache more efficiently (with less disk thrashing noticeable). Even my second system (using 1gig of ram) works more efficiently. This issue should be fixed before Feisty's release.
*See here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494659-highlight-.html
Also reported on Ubuntu Forums, user experiences of tweak and explanation can be seen here: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=388765 |
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| 2007-03-20 11:16:15 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-desktop: status |
Unconfirmed |
Rejected |
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| 2007-03-20 11:16:15 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-desktop: importance |
Undecided |
Medium |
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| 2007-03-20 11:16:15 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-desktop: statusexplanation |
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Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.
That's similar to bug #26419, the system expects the lo interface being correctly configured |
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| 2007-03-20 11:16:22 |
Sebastien Bacher |
marked as duplicate |
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26419 |
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| 2007-03-20 17:38:24 |
Sebastien Bacher |
removed duplicate marker |
26419 |
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| 2007-03-20 17:38:37 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-desktop: status |
Unconfirmed |
Rejected |
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| 2007-03-20 17:38:37 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-desktop: statusexplanation |
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not a gnome-desktop bug |
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| 2007-03-21 08:44:37 |
sam tygier |
marked as duplicate |
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26419 |
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| 2007-03-21 08:46:50 |
sam tygier |
removed duplicate marker |
26419 |
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| 2007-03-21 12:25:57 |
Martin Bergner |
gnome-session: status |
Rejected |
Confirmed |
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| 2007-03-21 12:25:57 |
Martin Bergner |
gnome-session: statusexplanation |
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.
That's similar to bug #26419, the system expects the lo interface being correctly configured |
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| 2007-03-21 12:31:10 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-session: status |
Confirmed |
Unconfirmed |
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| 2007-03-21 12:31:10 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-session: statusexplanation |
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not a GNOME bug |
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| 2007-03-21 12:42:32 |
Martin Bergner |
None: assignee |
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martin-bergner |
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| 2007-03-21 12:42:32 |
Martin Bergner |
None: statusexplanation |
not a GNOME bug |
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| 2007-03-25 15:04:13 |
Matt Sicker |
gnome-desktop: status |
Rejected |
Needs Info |
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| 2007-03-25 15:04:13 |
Matt Sicker |
gnome-desktop: assignee |
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junx |
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| 2007-03-25 15:04:13 |
Matt Sicker |
gnome-desktop: statusexplanation |
not a gnome-desktop bug |
OK, this bug deals more with hostname than it does with anything else as far as I can tell. I need some debugging info, so someone needs to run "/usr/bin/time -o fx-old -v /usr/bin/firefox" before the change, and "/usr/bin/time -o fx-new -v /usr/bin/firefox" after the change, then attach those two files here. Also, if anyone knows how to run strace to debug this, please go ahead and attach any info you can get about it. |
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| 2007-03-26 21:32:17 |
Vipul Delwadia |
bug |
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added attachment '94048-output.tar.gz' (See comment, output of various debugging commands as mentioned in the thread) |
| 2007-04-15 17:17:27 |
Julius Bloch |
bug |
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added attachment 'log' (strace -r gcalctool -x echo &> /tmp/log) |
| 2007-06-04 09:28:33 |
Martin Bergner |
None: assignee |
martin-bergner |
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| 2007-07-30 21:43:23 |
Matt Sicker |
hostname: assignee |
mjunx |
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| 2007-07-30 21:43:23 |
Matt Sicker |
hostname: statusexplanation |
OK, this bug deals more with hostname than it does with anything else as far as I can tell. I need some debugging info, so someone needs to run "/usr/bin/time -o fx-old -v /usr/bin/firefox" before the change, and "/usr/bin/time -o fx-new -v /usr/bin/firefox" after the change, then attach those two files here. Also, if anyone knows how to run strace to debug this, please go ahead and attach any info you can get about it. |
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| 2007-08-06 15:34:22 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-desktop: status |
New |
Invalid |
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| 2007-08-06 15:34:22 |
Sebastien Bacher |
gnome-desktop: statusexplanation |
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not a gnome-desktop bug |
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| 2008-11-27 19:33:06 |
xteejx |
None: status |
New |
Incomplete |
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| 2008-11-27 19:33:06 |
xteejx |
None: statusexplanation |
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Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance. |
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| 2009-02-21 20:39:18 |
Andres Mujica |
None: status |
Incomplete |
Invalid |
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| 2009-02-21 20:39:18 |
Andres Mujica |
None: statusexplanation |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance. |
I'm closing this bug report because it lacks a complete and concrete explanation of how to reproduce the issue. Please, if you're being affected by this bug, will be really grateful if you can provide us with a complete test case that can be used to validate and solve this bug.
Please refrain to make unhelpful comments, those wouldn't solve the bug. We need to be able to reproduce the bug in order to solve it.
Thanks in advance |
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| 2009-12-16 08:42:00 |
tomas |
removed subscriber tomas |
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| 2010-11-20 21:37:22 |
Elias K Gardner |
removed subscriber Elias K Gardner |
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| 2010-11-22 11:15:07 |
Guilherme Salgado |
removed subscriber Guilherme Salgado |
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