rhn alert icon

[Daniel Veillard]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 09:27:46PM +0200, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> tor 2003-08-07 klockan 12.20 skrev Daniel Veillard:
> 
> >   This tend to confirm my hypothesis that this is related to load, especially
> > if rebuilding the cache on a first start, a relatively slow machine or low
> > memory conditions might exacerbate the problem ...
> > 
> >    thanks for the report !
> > 
> > Daniel
> 
> When i start my computer and log in to the Gnome desktop i can see this 
> one pixel-wide RHN icon for about a second or two.
> I have an P3-500 with 512 mb ram.
> I installed everything from the BETA and have not checked what is
> starting and what is not, so i might have lots of stuff starting - that
> is, heavy load.
> So i guess this might also confirm your hypothesis?
> For me the icon gets the right size after that second or two though.

  Hum, interesting ... 

> But also, i do recall seeing the one pixel-size icon for a whole session
> rather than just a second while starting gnome.

  At the moment the only idea I can get to work around this would be to block 
the program until load goes back to some "normal" state, but I really can't
accept this as a decent solution, I'm afraid it would open the door
to more insane problems, sigh ...

Daniel

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