Anyone else seeing a stutter in gnome using rawhide

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Tue Oct 14 05:45:40 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 12:06 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > If, for example, I'm typing, the text will stop appearing for second (or
> > so) and then all the letters I've typed over that time appear.
> > 
> > Add to this that the icons on the desktop will disappear, and then
> > reappear.  This usually happens at the end of the pause.
> 
> I've certainly noticed the pauses. I haven't seen the icon behavior.
> 
> My impression is that keyboard and mouse handling has somehow become vastly
> lower priority than disk IO processing. I've noticed when running "yum update"
> I'll see the interactive pauses right at the same time each new rpm is
> finished downloading or installing. (This is on a system with USB keyboard
> and mouse and SATA disks).

This for me is a whole of desktop thing.

Examples:

* If you run top, then top's refresh stalls when it happens.

* Just as I started to write this email I dragged the window across the
desktop at just the right time.  My windows go transparent when I
dragged and the window (having been released) remained transparent for a
moment while the system stalled.

* Games (like xmoto) stall for a moment and then resume.


Rodd


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