F16 slowness

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:31:08 +0200, D (drago01) 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).

That is acceptable. Afterall, it's just a work-around.

If a fix were implemented, that would be better, of course. The defective
behaviour without the work-around is inacceptable as it leads to too much
damage in windows, not limited to editing text. Even larger corruption,
such as: http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/tmp/fedora-clutter-bug-720605.png

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