<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2008 5:33 PM, wwp <<a href="mailto:subscript@free.fr">subscript@free.fr</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello Alastair, <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:14:09 -0500 "Alastair Neil" <<a href="mailto:ajneil@gmail.com">ajneil@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > Has anyone else experienced terrible desktop performance with F8. Under F7 > on the same hardware I never had any significant problems, now it appears > several times a day my desktop locks up (or appears to), mouse movement > seems unaffected yet windows are unresponsive and I cannot move of select > any windows or panel objects, even the ctrl-alt-f virtual terminal sequence > seems to be ignored. The media player continues happily playing audio. CPU > load seems pretty high during these lockups and pulseaudio appears to be > consuming much of it. Usually if I am patient the system unlocks, however > often I resort to extreme measures. > > Typically I used to have under F7 firefox, thunderbird several gnome > terminals, rhythmbox and occasionally openoffice open. I have now resorted > to epiphany, thunderbird and quodlibet ( I cannot use evolution these days, > I have become addicted to the grouped by sort G feature). > > The system itself is a P4 2.8 GHZ Dell optiplex 270 with 2 Gbytes of memory > and an older nvidia card with two 19 inch monitors. I am using the > xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-96xx drivers and my home directory is mounted via NFSv3 > over gigabit ethernet. > > I'd appreciate knowing if anyone else has had similar problems before I roll > back to F7. It is possible that I am having hardware problems, so the F7 > roll back may not help. > > Regards, Alastair Neil </div></div>I'm getting sensitive short locks (mouse/keyboard events being lost for 1-2 sec). Running F8 GNOME on a Dell D810. Couldn't notice those locks when running XFCE. I could solve some of the locks, see (1). But I still get some mouse/key short locks still, sometimes more, sometimes less sensitive, strange, I couldn't yet determine why (2). (1) <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg00904.html" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg00904.html</a> (partially solved, see my reply dealing w/ "Dim display when idle) (*) (2) <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg00476.html" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg00476.html</a> I'm not sure at all, but I see haldaemon and gnome-power instabilities, and the power managers often brings completely surrealist messages about my power status. I wouldn't be surprised if those hangs would be related. Funny 'cause I never got any of these problems w/ FC5. Regards, -- wwp<a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank"></a></blockquote><div> Hmm the lock-ups I'm seeing are much longer than 1-2 seconds possibly of the order of a 2+ minutes. </div></div>