Bug 90149
Summary: | Slow application launch in Red Hat | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mitsu Hadeishi <mitsu> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 9 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:52:52 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Mitsu Hadeishi
2003-05-03 14:41:27 UTC
I was discussing this problem with a friend of mine familiar with kernel development and he thought that it might actually be kernel related. Newer kernels have added optimizations allowing for better real-time response, which have to do with allocating more time to certain types of foreground I/O operations. Basically, I think what might be at issue here is foreground application priority (including giving timeslices to launching applications). AHA! I discovered the answer to this problem!! After nosing around the Net for a while I discovered it: the problem is magicdev. Remove the magicdev package, and suddenly Open Office goes from 100 seconds to launch to 15 seconds. Clocked. Yes, that's 100 seconds down to 15 seconds. And I have read other people reporting the same thing. There is something seriously wrong with magicdev at least on some systems (mine is an Inspiron 8200). Magicdev should definitely be reexamined. This bug should be reassigned to someone who knows about magicdev. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73661 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |