F16 slowness

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 08:37 +0200, Matthias Runge wrote:
> On 05/09/11 21:54, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 13:32 -0400, Andy Lawrence wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Something is going on with gnome-shell.  Mine progressively goes
> >> form normal to 50% CPU, over a few hours.  End result is a fairly
> >> choppy desktop until reloaded (ALT+F2; r).  No interesting output
> >> in dmesg or messages.
> > 
> > Might be that or along those lines, or some underlining issue that 
> > causes it, as stated before, kde has slowness issues as well.
> > Maybe it's glibc that is having some issues and/or along with newer
> > kernels along with debug turned on, with those combinations might
> > be causing it all.
> > 
> > But if others aren't having any slowness issues, then maybe it's 
> > something else that we all have the same issue with. Video (mine
> > is radeon hd 4350) or something?
> > 
> > 
> Jumping in late in this thread, I've seen this too. I'm using Xfce and
> can not find a reason for this. video is radeon 4350, too (or 4370?).
> It seems like it's video related. With f15, opening a new tab in
> firefox it took nearly no time and 'bam' tab was shown. Currently it
> looks like one can track each element painted on the screen.
> 
> Is there a graphics benchmark to try out?

I don't see that a benchmark is going to tell you anything you don't
already know ('it's performing slow'). I'd suggest grabbing a set of
older kernel builds and booting them all to see if you can find one
which runs at normal speed and hence identify when the breakage
occurred.
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