KDE became a sort of sloth

[Tod Merley]

Some basic tools to learn to find the problem (man pages for each but
search for tutorials):

journalctl

dmesg

top

Then an interesting article I recently ran across:

http://debloper.blogspot.com/2013/12/optimizing-fedora-startup-performance.html

Have fun!


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Walter Cazzola <cazzola at di.unimi.it> wrote:

> Dear Fedora Experts,
> I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is
> running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble.
>
> Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is
> really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again) and
> sometimes becomes unresponsive for a while.
>
> The period of freezing coincide with some HD activities (or at least
> with the HD indicator light turned on without blinking (or blinking so
> fast that I can't discern it). I've tried to see with top if I have some
> suspect process running but everything is as usual.
>
> Also the KDE session the system restores is pretty naïve with a couple
> of konsoles, an instance of firefox and a couple of okulars open.
> Nothing that, in my view, can justify the change.
>
> I've tried to undo the last update but yum fails in that due to a
> dependency issue. Both Baloo and Akonadi indexing service are turned
> off. Also googling around didn't suggest me new ideas about how to fix
> the problem
>
> My next try it would be to use the nvidia drivers instead of nouveau but
> before selling my soul to the evil ;-) I'd prefer to ask for help.
>
> Any suggestion? Any known bug I'm run into?
>
> Thank you in adavance for your help
> Walter
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