[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.2 BETA 2 slowness

[Matt]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Max Brazhnikov <makc at issp.ac.ru> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:00:09 -0800, David Johnson wrote:
>> I've built kdelibs4 and the kdebase4 ports. No problems noticed during
>> build. However, running the KDE4 desktop is agonizingly slow. It takes
>> about two minutes to login, and individual apps taking over a minute to
>> start. While running most apps seem responsive. Desktop effects are off.
>> I've cleared out old configuration data, and even switched back to 4BSD
>> scheduler. All to no effect.
>>
>> System: 7.1-RELEASE, 2.8Ghz P4 single core, 1GiB RAM.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Please note that area51 ports for beta and rc releases are built with debug:
> https://kf.athame.co.uk/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/area51/Mk/bsd.kde4.mk?r1=4415&r2=4427
>
> You can disable debug support, kde surely will run faster. However two minutes
> for logon seems to much for me. On my box I feel the difference bitween
> debug/release builds, but it's not so impressive.
>
I haven't noticed much slowness with the debug-enabled builds on my
desktop, but I have noticed increased memory usage.  Have you checked
to make to make sure you're not hitting swap?  Also, how are you
launching KDE?  From kdm or .xinitrc?  I login with the .xinitrc set
to:

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde

Haven't noticed any dbus-related issues with that.

Matt