Thanks John. On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, John Andersen wrote:
On 09/09/2015 04:40 PM, Xen wrote:
Also loading URLs from e.g. a chat client, does the same. You click a link and it takes at least 30 second for the page to load; but before it load it tries to fire up a new instance of Firefox, and after 10-15 seconds it realises that a new instance is not required. All the while you have one or two new window-tiles being active in your taskbar.
Yeah, I've seen that on occasion too.
In a couple of cases, Ive tracked it down to a difference in the way the menu system launches a program, (the command line used), and the command line used by me (typing it in) or by the other program doing the launching. I haven't solved all instances of it.
I've noticed at times that running something from the shell will cause a whole bunch of DBUS messages to appear and even starting kwrite may take 15 seconds. Often the messages that are being output have to do with NetworkManager :-/ :S. After that it starts instantly indeed.
Other times I've found it has to do with software (Google Chrome, LibreOffice, etc) that are fairly large,and they take a while to find room in memory, (perhaps swapping things out). Then they finally stagger to their feet. (Maybe you don't see this with 16gig of memory).
I don't know why the program doesn't see that an existing process already exists. Most programs do that.
Once launched, subsequent launches take very little time at all, as they already have everything in memory. Of course this happens in windows too unless you boot up allowing those programs to load their resident part.
Yeah but in Windows I never get this lengthy boot-up or start-up process of programs that are already loaded. DBus is a weird thing... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org