On 03/30/2011 12:10 AM, JD wrote:
On 03/29/2011 08:08 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
On 03/29/2011 10:43 PM, JD wrote:
On 03/29/2011 06:28 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 03/29/2011 05:08 PM, JD wrote:
Can this be attributed to Gnome or to the X server or to the ATI Radeon driver?
I'm using F 14 and Gnome and see no problems even though my mobo's maxed out at 1G RAM. Probably the driver.
Well, it is taking up to 3.5 seconds for the windows in a workspace to get populated and fully visible when I switch to that workspace.
What is the load avg on the system in question? I have seen similar on my system when the load avg starts to climb (anything> 5 is really bad). But, when he load avg is low, redraws should be good.
It used to be almost instantaneous in F13. I have 2GB ram, and 12 GB swap space, but very few apps running. Most of the time I have 6 workspaces, each with a separate FireFox window,
Firefox is a resource *PIG*. Since it is one application, I'd look into how much memory it is using (both in ram and in swap), and whether or not any of its windows are doing anything (like displaying FLASH or active JAVA applets).
and up to 4 4 workspaces, each with a gnome terminal. and 1 workspace with Thunderbird.
How big are your mailboxes? Thunderbird can also slow you down if you have large mailboxes.
Hardly any space is used in swap. To wit:
# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda3 partition 4200992 17540 -1 /dev/sdb2 partition 8385924 0 -2
What does your performance look like after you close *every* firefox window and thunderbird? [make sure firefox is no longer running.]
Here's my load average as reported by top:
top - 21:02:44 up 1 day, 6:41, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.30, 0.73 The 5 users are myself: the main Gnome login session, and 4 Gnome-terminal login shells (I always start the gnome terminal as a login shell (-ls) ) Guy, it is not the system load. Under fc13, even when I had multiple kernel builds going, 6 FF windows, each with 3 to 4 tabs, and Thunderbird running, switching workspaces was snappy.
Something is terribly wrong with Xserver or Gnome, or Ati Radeon Driver, or all 3.
On your hardware. I am also using F14 on my laptop (x86_64) with the ATI driver, and I only see the problems you see under high system load, which easily happens with thunderbird open (quite a few *large* mailboxes) and a *lot* of tabs in 1 firefox window. Especially when letting a FLASH window or two run for a couple of hours....
Since I closed firefox (I now use Google chrome sparingly, and close it when I'm done), I'm running *much* better. My load avg hasn't shot up yet (and it should have started doing so already based on my hightly cron jobs!). I'll know more tomorrow morning after I suspend it an restart it.
What's worse: it will be exceedingly difficult for me to roll back to fc13. Isn't progress wonderful! I hope an Xorg developer sees this!!
I don't think they'll be interested unless you can prove its your xorg driver.
Just another thought, how long since you rebooted last? Sometimes xorg updates can require a reboot to work right. When was the last xorg update you installed?
I suspect you have something mis-configured, but I have no clue as to what right now.