X slow startup

[Alberto Cardinalli Jr.]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 23:06, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Alberto Cardinalli Jr. wrote:
> >>>lwj wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:52, Alberto Cardinalli Jr. wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I know that problems with NVIDIA drivers and other stuff aren't the
> >>>>>focus of this list, but I really tried everything that I saw in NVIDIA
> >>>>>discussion forum, nothing resolved my problem and NVIDIA don't give us
> >>>>>an answer. So I think that someone can help me with some hint. In my
> >>>>>machine X startup takes about 30 seconds, but when I had an old kernel
> >>>>>and driver versions(nvidia:4496/kernel:2129), it was normal. 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>My machine:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Video Card: Riva TNT2 32Mb RAM PCI
> >>>>>Driver Version: 1.0-5336
> >>>>>Distribution: Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl)
> >>>>>Video Bios Revision: 02.05.19.03.00
> >>>>>Processor: AMD XP2000+ 
> >>>>>Motherboard: Asus A7V8X
> >>>>>Memory: 512Mb DDR400
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>I don't think that this is an issue with the video driver. I am using
> >>>>similar card (Riva TNT2 with 32 MB of ram AGP) I am running on a slower
> >>>>machine with the same amount of ram and I do not have any problems with
> >>>>graphics performance. For 2D drawing I would not expect the AGP/PCI to
> >>>>make that much of a difference in the performance. There must be
> >>>>something else going on here.
> >>>
> >>>Is this slow startup invoked from boot or from doing something like
> >>>"startx" or "telinit 5"?  If it's not from boot, do an "uptime" before
> >>>you invoke the command and see if the load is high.  You may have some
> >>>background process sucking up a lot of resources (updatedb comes to mind
> >>>right away).
> > 
> > 
> > I invoke X using 'startx', i did an uptime and that's my load average:
> > 0.41, 0.15, 0.06.
> 
> That's a fairly husky load for a single-user machine.  You should do
> a "ps -ax", "ps -ef" or "top" and see what's sucking up all that CPU.
> 
> > As I said before, even booting with an older kernel and reinstalling an
> > older version of the driver, the problem continues. I've tried
> > everything of NVIDIA's FAQ's and forums with no success. I posted a
> > question there but they didn't answer.
> 
> This isn't a driver/kernel/whatever problem...you have some process
> that's eating up CPU cycles and slowing down the startup.  Look at
> the first process listed in the "top" report and see why it's using
> up all your CPU.
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I killed some unused stuff here and this is my uptime: 0.00, 0.08, 0.06
I did "top" and "ps" after the cleanup and everything is OK, no "hunger"
process, but "startx" takes the same time. I think I'll try James hint,
try older drivers versions until I find one that starts X normally.

Thank you all,

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Alberto C. Jr.