[arch-general] TK related GUI program run VERY slow, any idea?

[Martti Kühne]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 10:02:40PM +0800, Brock Zheng wrote:
> > Are you loading a big ~2Gb repo with gitk or just a small one?
>    Just a small one  --- several kb source code.
>    I think it has nothing todo with the GIT, it is something about TK lib.
> aMSN and other GUI program using TK runs very slow, and seems they are torture
> my harddisk. When starting, the keyboard nearly lost response to other programs....
>  

you should be able to catch stuff like this with strace and kernel.log.
btw, do you have a swap partition on said "tortured" drive?

let's see if I can test in the next couple of days...

cheers!
mar77i