FS#34128 - [chromium] dolphin extremely slow startup and slow behaviour

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bogomil (smirky) - Sunday, 03 March 2013, 11:17 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Monday, 08 April 2013, 13:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The Dolphin file manager in KDE starts up very slowly and after ~30 seconds it starts, but everything I do with it, takes about another 30 seconds to be done. Until then the applications is completely freezed up and most of the times, KDE prompts a force close solution. This doesn't happen all the time, but when it happesn, only a reboot "fixes" it temporary and after a while it gets bugged again.


Additional info:
* package version(s)
- kdebase-dolphin 4.10.0-1
* config and/or log files etc.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Hitachi_HDS721050CLA362_JP1540HN2D653H" : property "Drive" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Hitachi_HDS721616PLA380_PVG904Z5T0PN2V" : property "Drive" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Optiarc_DVD_RW_AD_7240S" : property "Drive" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/SAMSUNG_File_Stor_Gadget_0019322f7c059e_1" : property "Drive" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/SAMSUNG_File_Stor_Gadget_0019322f7c059e" : property "Drive" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Hitachi_HDS721616PLA380_PVG904Z5T0PN2V" : property "DeviceNumber" does not exist
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Hitachi_HDS721616PLA380_PVG904Z5T0PN2V" : property "Device" does not exist

This is dump is from launching dolphin through a terminal. I googled a few reports about this issue, but the answers were pointing to distro handling.


Steps to reproduce:

Run Dolphin on KDE 4.10
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Monday, 08 April 2013, 13:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Ideally we would want to re-enable tcmalloc once it's fixed upstream (either Chromium or NVIDIA).
Comment by robert r (crobe) - Sunday, 17 March 2013, 13:46 GMT
I also have this behaviour, a reboot fixes the problem most times.
Comment by Bogomil (smirky) - Sunday, 17 March 2013, 13:55 GMT
I think I found the problem, but I'm not sure if it's the solution for everybody.

Recently I've experienced Chromium problems, leaving zombies and in a thread I've read that these zombies can cause KDE apps to lag as I described above. Killing those processes is the solution for me so far.

About the Chromium bug:
I traced the problem a little bit deeper and

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1241006
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=123583

there were a few more, but I think those are enough to make a point. The problem seems to NOT be in Chromium but in the NVIDIA drivers with some kind of a talloc or something. This was discussed in a few reports in the Chrome/Chromium bug tracking list and those were the comments. So what's left I think is NVIDIA to clean their mess. I have a hunch they already did, because new drivers are already released, but they are not in the arch packages yet. I really hope this gets fixed upstream. I think this bug report can be closed, since it's not in the hands of the arch devs :)
Comment by robert r (crobe) - Sunday, 17 March 2013, 14:38 GMT
Thanks for the information, funnily I just switched to chromium :)
Comment by dlh (dlh) - Monday, 08 April 2013, 09:18 GMT
TO dev's: please compile with -Dlinux_use_tcmalloc=0
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Monday, 08 April 2013, 11:54 GMT
Please test chromium 26.0.1410.43-3 which is built without tcmalloc.
Comment by dlh (dlh) - Monday, 08 April 2013, 13:28 GMT
Thanks you for such fast action, now it's working as it should.

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