Fedora 16 feels slow

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 20:03:38 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Andreas Tunek <andreas.tunek at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Fedora people.
>
> I have just installed F16 on my Asus 522 (a netbook) and everything
> works regarding hw. Good work everybody!
>
> However, compared to F15 everything feels really slow. Typing this has a
> delay of about .5 seconds for every character in Evolution, and logging
> into Gnome Shell takes a couple of minutes. Moving to another workspace
> takes a couple of seconds.
>
> Does anyone else get the same performance and is it expected to improve?
> I can not see that anything is hogging power in the system monitor, but
> there might be something I do not know that is slowing this machine
> down.
>
> Any info is appreciated!

Try the 3.1-rc6 kernel sitting in bodhi waiting to be pushed to f16 stable.

josh


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