Very long login/logout times

[Ben Boeckel]

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Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote:

> On Thursday 23 July 2009 22:13:39 Colin J Thomson - G6AVK 
wrote:
> 
>> As the Subj says and it has been getting progressively worse 
during
>> the 4.3-rc series, long as in up to ~30 seconds to reach the 
login
>> screen when logging out, starting kde takes a very long time 
also
>> from the initial splash ~ 30-40 seconds.
>>
>> Any suggestions how to debug this?
> 
> Well.. obviously I was the only one having this problem,
> 
> After a *lot* of testing and digging around the culprit was in 
Plasma,
> the offending file was the plasma-desktop-appletsrc, which had 
grown to
> over 150k and had a  lot of obsolete "clock" entries.
> 
> The new config file with the same desktop layout/settings etc 
is only
> now about ~7k and all is back to normal now for now..
> 
> Time permitting I'll diff the files and try and see what was 
happening,
> maybe my never ending Theme changes for testing purposes was 
the culprit
> and the stale entries where not being cleaned out.. who knows.
> 
> Oh yeah.. a flawless update to 4.3-RC3 thanks to all involved 
:)
> 
> Colin

Ah, that would explain it. Personal experience here is that the 
login time was greatly reduced. Used to be 20 seconds, now its 
more like 10. Not sure what changed, but I like it :) .

- --Ben

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