kdevelop speed drop

Roland Krause rokrau at yahoo.com
Thu May 17 14:42:37 BST 2001


Yes, that's a typical symtom of some kind of NFS failure. 
But why KDE is affected by that, I dont know. 
Roland

--- Eva Brucherseifer <eva at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Over here I am working on a linux box with an networked home dir on
> an 
> solaris server and I have the same problems. Sometimes it simply
> hangs.  I 
> think it's the automounter implementation combined with network load.
> We have 
> 10Mb/s and BNC, so that happens quite often :-( 
> On some machines there are hard mounted directories. Unfortunately
> there is 
> no background option for linux mount implemented so that high network
> load 
> makes the whole KDE freeze for seconds.
> 
> Greetings,
> eva
> 
> On Wednesday 16 May 2001 15:35, you wrote:
> > Falk, this sounds very much like my Solaris problem.
> > Except that I have heaviest network load *all the time*.
> > So let's look into this. The question is what happens when a window
> > gets opened resp. pushed to the front.
> >
> > Juergen, to debug this you could run in the debugger and either
> > manually interrupt or put a breakpoint in slotSwitchToFile.
> >
> > Roland
> >
> > --- Juergen Suessmaier <juergen at suessmaier.de> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > maybe I can give some more or less useful additional hint - at
> least
> > > how
> > > I am able to create the speed drop problem on a 700 MHz Athlon.
> The
> > > weird slowdown is very temporary (here) and does not show up
> unless
> > > Netscape runs multiple downloads.
> > >
> > > What I observed:
> > > I start Kdevelop and everything works like it is supposed to. No
> > > speed
> > > problems so far. Then I switch to another KDE desktop and start
> > > Netscape
> > > on a remote machine (my workstation just gets the display).
> KDevelop
> > > still
> > > works without any problems. Then, when I start parallel downloads
> > > with
> > > Netscape, the KDevelop problem arises. When I switch between two
> > > editor
> > > tabs (i.e. header->source or vice versa) then it suddenly takes
> > > several
> > > seconds (!) until Kdevelop is usable again. This happens only
> when
> > > some editor file is shown. There's no problem when for example
> the
> > > help browser is shown. After the weird delay, KDevelop continues
> its
> > > work in a normal way - until I switch to the next source file.
> After
> > > Netscape has completed the downloads the problem KDevelop problem
> is
> > > also gone.
> > >
> > > There's no noticable increase in CPU load during this KDevelop
> > > "lockup"
> > > and the rest of the system still remains very responsive. I can
> > > reproduce
> > > this problem here at any time, so if someone could give me some
> > > instructions
> > > on how to collect useful debug information, I'd be glad to assist
> in
> > > finding the bug.
> > >
> > > My current system config:
> > > RedHat 7.0, kernel 2.4.3, latest X (4.0.3), latest KDE (2.1.1),
> > > latest
> > > kdelibs (2.1.2).
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > > Juergen
> > >
> > > > --- "F at lk Brettschneider" <gigafalk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > A new CPU could help ;-}
> > > >
> > > > Falk, you have to know, has an 1.2Ghz Athlon box, so Falk
> doesnt
> > >
> > > care
> > >
> > > > anymore :-)
> > > >
> > > > Roland otoh has a PII300 and Roland does care.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, I cant see that KDevelop is slow on my Linux box
> either,
> > >
> > > yet I
> > >
> > > > have noticed some significant problems on Solaris. I've posted
> some
> > > > values a few weeks ago, havent actually had a chance to work on
> > >
> > > Linux
> > >
> > > > for the last two weeks or so.
> > > >
> > > > Falk, we do need to address this. There are things going on in
> this
> > > > code, I fear nobody knows about them anymore....
> > > >
> > > > Roland
> > > >
> > > > > Ciao,
> > > > > F at lk
> > > > >
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