slooooow

[Randy Bush]

did portupgrade -fR gnome2 after cleaning up dependencies.

all works, except it is *very* slow to start, minutes to get
the pretty beastie, more minutes to get the session's xterms,
more minutes to get the panel, ...  i wonder if i will ever
get a background.

while waiting for panel to start, top is not particularly interesting

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
  728 randy     76    0 79804K 78408K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% XFree86
  778 randy     76    0  6376K  5148K select   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gconfd-2
  597 root      90    0 21644K 20808K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% perl
  897 randy     20    0 18120K 15400K kserel   0:00  0.00%  0.00% gnome-backgro
  843 root      76    0 10620K  9468K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% emacs
  803 randy     99    0 18288K 13260K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% gnome-setting
  747 randy     76    0 16244K 11756K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% gnome-session
  889 randy     20    0 20356K 14912K kserel   0:00  0.00%  0.00% nautilus
  887 randy      4    0 16728K 12776K connec   0:00  0.00%  0.00% gnome-panel
  885 randy     76    0  7980K  6176K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% sawfish
  806 root      76    0  6052K  3052K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% sshd
  801 randy     76    0  5688K  4084K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% bonobo-activa
  856 randy     76    0  3536K  2800K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% xscreensaver
  651 root      76    0  1284K   744K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% moused
  247 root      76    0  1384K  1060K select   0:00  0.00%  0.00% natd

where should i look?

i have the hostname in /etc/hosts with 127.0.0.1

i removed .gnome/session

chicken entrails are next :-)

randy