Using Fedora 18, KDE 4.10.2 on x86_64 laptop with kernel 3.8.11-200
and nvidia proprietary drivers.
I have two hard disk. One SSD with / and swap and one hybrid with /home.
Recently, I remarked extremely long times (>60 s) to open some
programs like firefox or dolphin, the latter being the most critical.
I suspect disk access to slow down the machine as this happens when
the processor is nearly idle.
What can I check? Can I check the hard disks, how? Could it be something else?
I experience this very very slow behaviour again today each time I
need to access the disk. However, I ran hdparm as suggested by Roberto
and found no difference in hard disk speed compared to normal
behaviour. But I have launched libreoffice from command line becase it
was to slow to open dolphin and I found some errors in the terminal
(see below). Could this be of any help to diagnose the problem?
I now run kernel 3.9.4-200
Regards,
Frédéric
$ LibreOffice(10924)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones:
ktimezoned initialize() D-Bus call failed: "Did not receive a reply.
Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was broken."
LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le
module d'entrée / sortie : (translation: unable to create the
input/output module)
klauncher a retourné : Protocole « » inconnu. (translation: unkown "
" protocole)
"
LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le
module d'entrée / sortie :
klauncher a retourné : Protocole « » inconnu.
"
LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le
module d'entrée / sortie :
klauncher a retourné : Protocole « » inconnu.
"
LibreOffice(10924): couldn't create slave: "Impossible de créer le
module d'entrée / sortie :
klauncher a retourné : Protocole « » inconnu.
"
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore