Hi,
Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly, goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not corrupted). The problem seems to have started after I enabled some assistive technology, which nearly paralysed the performance of the computer. After disabling and deleting the assistive stuff (su -c "yum remove at-spi*") the computer is still performing somewhat poorly, not being able to do as much stuff as before and being generally much slower (notably when opening multiple web pages, e.g. several weather reports, about 10 tabs).
I assumed that there could be something that is still kicking in and slowing the system down.
Sorry to be so vague, but I don't recall any better what I did. I'm running Fedora 16, GNOME 3.2.1 is installed but I use XFCE, Kernel Linux 3.4.11-1.fc16.i686.PAE, RAM 1.2GB, Processor Intel Celeron CPU 2.4GHz, Available disk space 84GB. My computer is about 7 years old.
I could reinstall the system, and I'm confident that would remove this problem, but I would much prefer to find the problem, and fix it.
I have looked at some top output, but don't notice anything relevant (if anyone wants to see any of such, let me know what to do to get useful output).
Any suggestions where I could start or what to look for would be welcome.
TIA, Joe
On Tue 23 Oct 2012 10:03:28 AM EDT, Joe Feely wrote:
Hi,
Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly, goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not corrupted). The problem seems to have started after I enabled some assistive technology, which nearly paralysed the performance of the computer. After disabling and deleting the assistive stuff (su -c "yum remove at-spi*") the computer is still performing somewhat poorly, not being able to do as much stuff as before and being generally much slower (notably when opening multiple web pages, e.g. several weather reports, about 10 tabs).
I assumed that there could be something that is still kicking in and slowing the system down.
Sorry to be so vague, but I don't recall any better what I did. I'm running Fedora 16, GNOME 3.2.1 is installed but I use XFCE, Kernel Linux 3.4.11-1.fc16.i686.PAE, RAM 1.2GB, Processor Intel Celeron CPU 2.4GHz, Available disk space 84GB. My computer is about 7 years old.
I could reinstall the system, and I'm confident that would remove this problem, but I would much prefer to find the problem, and fix it.
I have looked at some top output, but don't notice anything relevant (if anyone wants to see any of such, let me know what to do to get useful output).
Any suggestions where I could start or what to look for would be welcome.
Try checking /etc/yum.log to see what else was pulled in at the same time as the at-spi* pieces. Possibly one of its dependencies with another name is hanging around causing you problems.
Joe,
Quick one-page snapshots of top can be gotten with: # top -b -n 1
R, -Joe
From: Joe Feely joe.feely@googlemail.com To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:03 AM Subject: Have I got an AT hangover?
Hi,
Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly, goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not corrupted).
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I have looked at some top output, but don't notice anything relevant (if anyone wants to see any of such, let me know what to do to get useful output).
--- Em ter, 23/10/12, Joe Feely joe.feely@googlemail.com escreveu:
De: Joe Feely joe.feely@googlemail.com Assunto: Have I got an AT hangover? Para: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Data: Terça-feira, 23 de Outubro de 2012, 12:03 Hi,
Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly, goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not corrupted). The problem seems to have started after I enabled some assistive technology, which nearly paralysed the performance of the computer. After disabling and deleting the assistive stuff (su -c "yum remove at-spi*") the computer is still performing somewhat poorly, not being able to do as much stuff as before and being generally much slower (notably when opening multiple web pages, e.g. several weather reports, about 10 tabs).
I assumed that there could be something that is still kicking in and slowing the system down.
Sorry to be so vague, but I don't recall any better what I did. I'm running Fedora 16, GNOME 3.2.1 is installed but I use XFCE, Kernel Linux 3.4.11-1.fc16.i686.PAE, RAM 1.2GB, Processor Intel Celeron CPU 2.4GHz, Available disk space 84GB. My computer is about 7 years old.
I could reinstall the system, and I'm confident that would remove this problem, but I would much prefer to find the problem, and fix it.
I have looked at some top output, but don't notice anything relevant (if anyone wants to see any of such, let me know what to do to get useful output).
Any suggestions where I could start or what to look for would be welcome.
TIA, Joe
Maybe check stuff in Settings>Session and Startup or even try rm -rf .cache/sessions
IDK if F16 has this but check that 'tracker' thing too.
On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 15:03 +0100, Joe Feely wrote:
Hi,
Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't play properly, goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop, so not corrupted).
It could be correlation in contrast to causation. Which video players have you tried?
Also, have you looked at running processes. Have you run top while running a video?
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:03:28PM +0100, Joe Feely wrote:
The problem seems to have started after I enabled some assistive technology, which nearly paralysed the performance of the computer.
The performance impact was only solved quite recently (GNOME 3.6). I assume the assistive tech is still partly enabled somehow. Could you make a new user, log in with that and play the same videos?
By default (new user), assistive tech should be off. It is something you specifically have to enable (more than installing some packages).
Forgot how you can disable/enable that stuff, especially from XFCE… above should at least give you some pointers.
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