REALLY slow xstart and kde start [SOLVED]

[Jon D. Slater]

Craig White wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 20:29 -0700, Jon D. Slater wrote:
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>>Claude Jones wrote: 
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>>>On Sun December 18 2005 8:18 pm, Jon D. Slater wrote:
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>>>>Any ideas what's up?
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>>>I doubt this is it, but I'll offer it because I just spent two days fighting 
>>>the exact same problem on a fresh install of a different distro. The problem 
>>>- it turned out that NDISwrapper was my culprit. I don't have all the issues 
>>>fleshed out, yet, but, I throw this out since our similar events are so 
>>>coincidental. In my case, I had NDISwrapper on my laptop to get my broadcom 
>>>wireless to be able to use its Windows driver - when I configured it, I had 
>>>it set to start on boot, and that's what threw it. It spent a huge amount of 
>>>time trying to start wlan0 and was unable to (for reasons I'm still trying to 
>>>understand), and that hogged all my system's resources - boot time slowed to 
>>>about 15 minutes
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>>My boot time if fine.  And X starts fine too (I get my login screen
>>within a couple of minutes of booting).
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>>The problem starts as soon as I enter my login and password, then
>>press enter.
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>>My disk access light comes on solid, and it takes 15 minutes to
>>complete start my session.
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>----
>go to a virtual console and watch top...
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><control><alt><F2>
>login as root
>run 'top'
><alt><F7> # return to GUI
>login as normal
><control><alt><F2>
>see which process is using up the CPU
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>Craig
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Never mind...  My bad...

Earlier today I had to replace a really LOUD cooling fan.  And I must 
have bumped my SDRAM.

So, it was trying to run X with only 64 Meg of memory.

I re-seated my memory, and now it's all "visible" again, and my speed is 
back.

Thank for all of you who posted suggestions!

Jon
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