Appalling desktop performance in F8

[Alastair Neil]

I am pretty much in control of the network and certainly nothing new
happening at the moment.  My music library is also in my home directory and
like I said, curiously music playback is flawless even when the desktop is
locked up - I suppose the music it could be buffered however.

On Jan 8, 2008 11:30 AM, Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston at ssa.crane.navy.mil>
wrote:

> Alastair Neil wrote, On 01/08/2008 11:14 AM:
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> Has anyone else been given access to the LAN you are on lately, or a new
> project started?  like sending video or audio across the LAN, or new users
> consuming all the available nfs daemons.
>
> instead of keeping ANY of it's configuration in core, while running, gnome
> keeps and references it's configuration from the file system[1]. This
> means
> that if NFS hiccups for a moment so will gnome, and when gnome hiccups you
> will not be able to give input to any of the other programs.
>
> I have seen this even with FC4, though usually I can get 'ctrl-alt-f
> virtual
> terminal' to work (in a few moments), and there is no pulseaudio.
>
> [1] at least from what I have seen of it's operation.  Man I miss using
> fvwm,
> which IIRC may have made a comeback in F8.
> --
> Todd Denniston
> Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
> Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
>
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