Bug#714920: ekiga: slow startup

[Eugen Dedu]

On 04/07/13 20:13, mazzeppanell wrote:
> Ok, an analysis with Wireshark shows no evident connection between
> network data and ekiga slowdown: i don't get any particular packet at
> "25th minute", nor at the "10th minute". There is immediately a quick

Hopefully, these are seconds, not minutes :)

> and little burst of 7 packets when the application starts, 2 DNS (a
> query and an answer for stun.ekiga.net), and 5 CLASSIC-STUN (Binding
> Request and Binding Response, in order Req-Req-Resp-Req-Resp).
> As said this happens at the very beginning of the startup, in about 0.1
> seconds, and nothing else is being exchanged in the remaining time,
> untill the GUI spawns.
> Can you confirm this is a normal behaviour?

Those packets are normal.  Waiting so much is not normal.

> Some suspect messages i could find are:
>
> 0:00.092                               HalManager_dbus    Populating
> full device list failed - The name org.freedesktop.Hal was not provided
> by any .service files
>
> 0:26.741    Opal Liste...0xadc70b40    Listen    UDP read error.
>
> 0:59.285    Opal Liste...0xadc70b40    Listen    UDP read error.
>
> But the first happens too early, the second when the main window has
> already been showed, and the last when i close Ekiga.

The above messages are harmless.

> Anyways i want to point out that program seems to work, tryed echo
> testing and was ok (though not the best quality)... the issue is just
> startup time.
>
> I'm wondering if this is just an issue of my system or someone has
> experienced tha same.

Some users experience slow startup time, but as far as I remember the 
only reason is DNS.

I will check a bit later your issue more thoroughly.

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Eugen