F16 slowness

[drago01]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Yeah I know ... just pointed that out because it feels somehow odd to
suggest something like that in a thread called "F16 slowness" (because
it makes it even slower).

But yeah we should just fix that bug ....