Applications slow to start up

[Matthew Winter]

Hi,

I did run top before, and nothing is showing up as chewing up CPU
cycles. In fact most things are running at less than 0.1% during the
startup of the application. When evolution finally starts, it increases
to about 50%, while it loads all of the folder information.

The only real thing I noticed, is that no matter what I started
"magicdev" seemed to kick in for about 2 seconds.

I have rebooted the machine without any difference. In fact it can be
worse when you have just booted. Leaving the machine for about 1 hour
seems to improve the overall performance of applications starting.

Thanks
Matthew


> If you haven't already, I would suggest running top to see if anything
> is chewing up CPU cycles.  Pressing "M" will sort by memory usage, and
> you can check if something is hogging memory as well.
> 
> Of course, this is only a possible cause if your machine has been
> running for those 3-4 days. 
>