Patterned slow-down over the entire GNOME desktop

[Ralf Ertzinger]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:33:47AM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:

> Hi, I am experiencing slow-down over the entire GNOME desktop. It is 
> interesting - 100% CPU activity for a very long time (too long for 
> everything to be allright).

DaveJ mentioned that recent FC kernels have memory usage tracking enabled,
which may slow down some processes considerably. You may be seeing this.
This will not be present in later kernels.