KDE too slow with all file operations

doug doug at fledge.watson.org
Mon May 5 16:12:23 PDT 2003


I have had this happen on 4.x with a laptop. Try clearing all sockets from
/tmp, especially mcop-xxxx. After that clear all the .mcop files from your
home directory.
 I have also caused this by having icons on my desktop that have nfs
references.

On Mon, 5 May 2003, Daniela wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> On 4.8-STABLE, KDE takes two minutes extra to startup, to open the "save as" 
> or "open" dialogs, open local directories with Konqueror, ...
> 
> Seems like everything related to local files is much slower than before (on 
> 5.0-CURRENT/RELEASE). It's the same computer and the same version of KDE, so 
> I think it is either a problem with the OS or with my files.
> Everything on my system is self-compiled.
> 
> I suspected this could be the result of restoring the home directories and the 
> distfiles from my previous installation. Now I don't think the home 
> directories are the cause, as this problem affects newly created users as 
> well.
> 
> Do you think it would help to recompile KDE, or are the distfiles for 4.8 and 
> 5.0 not the same? Or could the problem be XFree86, not KDE?
> 
> In the shell everything is going fast as hell.
> 
> I have no idea what this could be.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Daniela
> 
> 
> 
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