Appalling desktop performance in F8

[Sam Varshavchik]

Alastair Neil writes:

> Has anyone else experienced terrible desktop performance with F8.  Under 

Not really terrible, but the only one of my systems that couldn't boot the 
F8 anaconda installer without the "nohz=off" option is also the only one 
that's exhibiting sporadic hangs and freezes in Gnome.  Basically, Gnome 
stops processing some mouse button and keyboard events for about .5 seconds, 
then resumes as if nothing has happened.

95% of the time when I log in, and get the fscking gnome-keyring password 
prompt, which I despise with passion, after I quickly type the password and 
hit enter, the window goes away but the background remains unpainted for 
about 3-5 seconds, before everything finishes coming up. Also, when 
gnome-terminal has the input focus, sometimes when I quickly move the 
pointer on top of some desktop icon and click it, Gnome does not highlight 
it, and clicking it has no effect. I have to wait about 1-2 seconds with the 
pointer remaining motionless, on top of the icon, before Gnome highlights 
it, then I can click it.

I'm fingering the tickless code as being the problem here. My other laptop, 
and none of my servers, show any of this.

> 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

Hmmm. My ailing laptop is also running xorg's nv driver, and it's the only 
one with an nvidia video card.

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