This is getting distressing...
I first noticed this a few weeks ago. I keep assuming it will go away with updates but it hasn't.
Every time I reboot (not often) and sometimes when I've been logged off to allow another user to log on (also not often) - when I go to re-log in my desktop will load extremely slow. Now when I say slow I mean I've waited as long as ten minutes with no desktop yet. I simply can't go any longer. I will sometimes wait long enough to hear the opening sound and sometimes even my wallpaper will start to show. Dropping to TTY1 and restarting KDM will give me a desktop at normal speed. Usually my desktop is completely trashed - wallpaper gone, widgets gone, relocated or partially missing. Once my primary desktop space (monitor 1 desktop 1) was white with not even a mouse cursor.
Also about the same time frame I've noticed that each time I log in and check (I don't check every time) that the number of desktop activities grows. The first time I noted this behavior, I had about 40 desktop activities. They're all "unnamed" of course (and I can find no way to rename them) and they use that ridiculous square block print pattern thingy thats totally useless. Sometimes some of them are paused, other times not.
I have on two occasions, deleted all the desktop activities but the last one (because it won't allow it) and re-create all my desktop activities (4 - two monitors two desktops each) and widgets (six total). However, this never lasts long.
The really frustrating thing is nothing seems amiss - no weird logs, no obvious memory/ram hogs. I have noticed a new very slow xorg memory leak - after a week of uptime xorg is holding onto 20-25% of my ram vs. <5% usually. Not really a problem as long as I can restart X - but then goto the top of this post and start over at slow desktop load
Typically, when this starts, I'll jump to tty1 and run top - suspecting something is hogging CPU/RAM or zombied. No real suspects. Last time the CPU's were max 76% idle while I watched for about 8 minutes - with no desktop yet nd this is not a slow machine (see sig). The only thing often running is amarokcollection and it hard uses enough resources to cause this slow of a response. I first suspected akonadi but killing that p.o.s. made no difference (aside: why have the devs decided I need PIM storage service
).
I have no clue as to whether these two issues are related except to say I noticed both roughly the same time. My setup is somewhat non-standard as I'm running the nvidia-vdpau drivers and xorg-edgers along with KDE 4.5.3 backported on a standard 10.04 Lucid 2.6.32-30 kernel.
The only atypical things in dmesg after a reboot are:
which are really odd since I don't have networkmanager installed and I don't use dhcp on this computer but I believe these are apparmor messages.
So, given this mess I have created - I don't expect a lot of help. I would love to solve this, but I'm likely to be upgrading to 11.04 once it's released for this desktop just so I can more easily use the .38 kernel and kde 4.6.
In the meantime - any ideas?
I first noticed this a few weeks ago. I keep assuming it will go away with updates but it hasn't.
Every time I reboot (not often) and sometimes when I've been logged off to allow another user to log on (also not often) - when I go to re-log in my desktop will load extremely slow. Now when I say slow I mean I've waited as long as ten minutes with no desktop yet. I simply can't go any longer. I will sometimes wait long enough to hear the opening sound and sometimes even my wallpaper will start to show. Dropping to TTY1 and restarting KDM will give me a desktop at normal speed. Usually my desktop is completely trashed - wallpaper gone, widgets gone, relocated or partially missing. Once my primary desktop space (monitor 1 desktop 1) was white with not even a mouse cursor.
Also about the same time frame I've noticed that each time I log in and check (I don't check every time) that the number of desktop activities grows. The first time I noted this behavior, I had about 40 desktop activities. They're all "unnamed" of course (and I can find no way to rename them) and they use that ridiculous square block print pattern thingy thats totally useless. Sometimes some of them are paused, other times not.
I have on two occasions, deleted all the desktop activities but the last one (because it won't allow it) and re-create all my desktop activities (4 - two monitors two desktops each) and widgets (six total). However, this never lasts long.
The really frustrating thing is nothing seems amiss - no weird logs, no obvious memory/ram hogs. I have noticed a new very slow xorg memory leak - after a week of uptime xorg is holding onto 20-25% of my ram vs. <5% usually. Not really a problem as long as I can restart X - but then goto the top of this post and start over at slow desktop load
Typically, when this starts, I'll jump to tty1 and run top - suspecting something is hogging CPU/RAM or zombied. No real suspects. Last time the CPU's were max 76% idle while I watched for about 8 minutes - with no desktop yet nd this is not a slow machine (see sig). The only thing often running is amarokcollection and it hard uses enough resources to cause this slow of a response. I first suspected akonadi but killing that p.o.s. made no difference (aside: why have the devs decided I need PIM storage service
). I have no clue as to whether these two issues are related except to say I noticed both roughly the same time. My setup is somewhat non-standard as I'm running the nvidia-vdpau drivers and xorg-edgers along with KDE 4.5.3 backported on a standard 10.04 Lucid 2.6.32-30 kernel.
The only atypical things in dmesg after a reboot are:
Code:
[ 10.955195] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:2): operation="profile_load" pid=659 name="/sbin/dhclient3" [ 10.955272] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:3): operation="profile_replace" pid=826 name="/sbin/dhclient3" [ 10.955300] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:4): operation="profile_replace" pid=823 name="/sbin/dhclient3" [ 10.955807] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:5): operation="profile_load" pid=659 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" [ 10.955827] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:6): operation="profile_replace" pid=823 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" [ 10.955976] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:7): operation="profile_replace" pid=826 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" [ 10.956076] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:8): operation="profile_load" pid=659 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" [ 10.956106] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:9): operation="profile_replace" pid=823 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" [ 10.956312] type=1505 audit(1300925603.649:10): operation="profile_replace" pid=826 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script"
So, given this mess I have created - I don't expect a lot of help. I would love to solve this, but I'm likely to be upgrading to 11.04 once it's released for this desktop just so I can more easily use the .38 kernel and kde 4.6.
In the meantime - any ideas
?
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