F16 slowness

[drago01]

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:46:21 -0400, DJ (Dave) wrote:
>
>> you can turn off some of the heavier weight debugging by booting
>> the 3.0 kernels with "slub_debug=-"
>> (In the 2.6.40 builds, this is only on in the -debug flavor)
>>
>> Debugging options are going to be turned off for the next builds
>> in time for the beta.
>
> Based on first impressions, this option makes a difference. At least
> for the "xterm -e mc" resize test, under the assumption that I've not
> made a typo when adding this in GRUB2 command-line.
>
> Together with the workaround from clutter bug 720605, Claws Mail also
> no longer suffers from missing subject lines in its Folder Summary View.

Note that this workaround actually degrades performance as it causes
more stuff to be drawn and bigger areas to be blit to the front buffer
(the whole screen rather then the changed part).