Slow things

[John Merryweather Cooper]

Stroganov A. V. wrote:
> Greetings
> Andrew, THANKS! Now my Gnome works faster. These symptoms are cured =).
> Applications are faster too.
> So...
> i've searched google for "update your icon cache Gnome" and found this:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-update-icon-cache.html
>
> so, then i did:
> #find /usr -name "index.theme" -print > lst
>
> then i wrote a little python script which executed gtk-update-icon-cache
> in every folder that has index.theme:
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> import os
> f=open("lst","r");
> for s in f.readlines():
>     print s[:-13]
>     os.system("gtk-update-icon-cache -f "+s[:-13])
> f.close()
>
> Of course, there is an easier way without python script, but i don't
> feel very comfortable with regexps, sed and so on. I'm just FreeBSD home
> user with a couple of little FreeBSD servers =).
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> P.S.:I've sent a copy of this to maillist.
>
>
> В ср, 12/07/2006 в 16:26 -0500, Andrew пишет:
>   
>> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:13 +0400, Stroganov A. V. wrote:
>>     
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> I'm using gnome 2.14.2 . Various actions (opening Gnome menu, draggin
>>> link in firefox or openning download dialog) in Gnome are causing 100%
>>> CPU usage (FreeBSD 6.1 for amd64) for a few seconds. Is it fixable? I
>>> didn't have such problems on 2.12.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I believe I remember reading a similar post around the time that 2.14
>> was released. IIRC, the solution was to "update your icon cache". Please
>> don't quote me on this, but it may at least get you started in the right
>> direction. Search the mail archives and let me know if you don't come up
>> with anything...
>>
>> -Andrew
>>
>>     
>
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>   
The python script can be deleted and the whole thing can be done with find:

$ sudo find /usr -name "index.theme" -execdir gtk-update-icon-cache -f . \;

jmc