Appalling desktop performance in F8

[Alastair Neil]

On Jan 8, 2008 5:33 PM, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Alastair,
>
>
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:14:09 -0500 "Alastair Neil" <ajneil at gmail.com>
> 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
>
> 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)
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg00904.html
> (partially solved, see my reply dealing w/ "Dim display when idle) (*)
>
> (2)
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg00476.html
>
> 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 <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list>


Hmm the lock-ups I'm seeing are much longer than 1-2 seconds possibly of the
order of a 2+ minutes.
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