On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 10:59:54PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Mike A. Harris (mharris@mharris.ca) said:
my 3d graphics and screensavers run jerkily and seem sluggish. Firefox 1.5 rendering time is abysmal compared to Firefox 1.0.7 on FC4 on this same machine. It has a 3 GHz P4 processor for heaven's sake. It should run FC5 like the wind.
That's why it is a test release, to find bugs. Don't use test releases if you expect flawless OS operation and perfect performance.
However, if it's *significantly* less performance, it could certainly signify something that's wrong.
Current kernels still have slab debugging on (Because we still have bugs that this is tripping up that need whacking). The increased overhead of this sucks up memory bandwidth, and I wouldn't be surprised if shared-memory video chipsets feel some pain.
Dave