Patterned slow-down over the entire GNOME desktop

[Arjan van de Ven]

> Also, I still run kernel 1688, because I don't want to deal with the 
> hassle of making the livna nvidia driver work with modular X for every 
> new kernel. Which kernel started including this tracking patch

oh you're using the binary nvidia driver; would maybe have been useful
to give info like that in the initial report ;) (eg what hardware is
involved, what kernel stuff what X stuff etc etc)