F16 slowness

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 09:29 +0200, Matthias Runge wrote:
> On 07/09/11 21:06, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >> 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.
> Sometimes, it's just a feeling. If we know numbers, we can show, this
> issue is fixed.
> 
> Yesterday there was an Xorg-Update (Xorg-common, Xorg-server). I'm
> nearly sure, this regression was fixed with that update, which circles
> me back to the benchmark-question.

gtkperf is a quick and dirty and often wrong benchmark which is usually
enough to demonstrate really egregious regressions. There's a
cairo-based one which I believe is more accurate, but I don't recall the
details of that one.
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