F16 slowness
Mike Chambers
mike at miketc.net
Fri Sep 9 16:37:39 UTC 2011
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 09:25 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 02:31 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 13:39 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 16:32 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:28:26 -0700
> > > > Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > That's https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720605 , which is
> > > > > being worked on, and has workarounds.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure it is that bug. That one talks about things not
> > > > rendering at all, what I see is a annoying and perceptible
> > > > delay between (for example) moving the cursor and seeing the
> > > > cursor and selection actually move on the screen, but it was
> > > > being rendered right, just not right away.
> > >
> > > it should be easy to check: just try the workaround from the bug report.
> > > If that fixes it, that's the problem you're having.
> >
> > Don't work here. Just hitting reply to this email, took 5 seconds for
> > the window to appear and the writing to show up.
> >
> > What I do see, is opening up a termain and running "top", then
> > clicking a few windows that are open, going back and forth for few
> > seconds and just clicking on each one along the panel, then quickly
> > going to the terminal and can see X using over 50% CPU.
> >
> > So seems X is using up resources in one way or another pretty much no
> > matter what I do.
>
> Okay, different bug then. What graphics card?
Radeon HD 4350. Using a 2.6.40 kernel (might try a 3.0 kernel that is
lil older) helps speed it up a whole lot.
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