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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> The following command</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> strace -tt -f -ff -o /tmp/kde.strace startkde</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> provides some insight in what happens and can be helpful in </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> identifying obvious braindamage.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I've run this command, just start a kde session and close the session.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>* 1: There are some files that are opened using the O_LARGEFILE and others that could be larger does not uses the O_LARGEFILE.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>examples:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>open("/root/.qt/.qtrc.lock", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0600) = 4</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>open("/root/.qt/qtrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 5</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>open("/root/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 9</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>open("/usr/kde31/share/config/kdebugrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 9</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>open("/usr/kde31/share/config/kdebug.areas", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 9</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>open("/usr/kde31/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kdelibs.mo", O_RDONLY) = 9</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>should all the open() have the O_LARGEFILE ?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>* 2: I've seen that the slowest process takes only 4 seconds, but there are more than 400</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>processes in my normal startup.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Regards.</FONT>
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