F16 slowness

[drago01]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:37:17 -0700, AW (Adam) wrote:
>
>> Note the second-to-last comment on the bug is a request for info which
>> no-one has provided so far:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720605#c40
>>
>> "it would help if somebody tested using:
>>
>>   export CLUTTER_PAINT=redraws
>>
>> and verified if there are rectangles painted where nothing should be
>> painted."
>
> That's a tough one. All those extra rectangles don't make it easy to
> use GNOME as they are drawn over the panel in several colours and therefore
> hide buttons and menus entries, such as in
> http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/tmp/fedora-clutter-bug-720605-2.png
>
> but once I've started some apps to work in, it isn't so bad for testing
> this for some time.
>
> However, first I may need to return to clutter without the disable
> culling fix and check whether I can still reproduce the refresh issues.
>
> Currently, I'm at
>
>  clutter-1.7.90-1.fc16.x86_64
>  kernel-3.1.0-0.rc6.git0.0.fc16.x86_64
>
> with NO (!) disable-culling stuff but just these extra rectangles, and
> so far I cannot reproduce any issues.

That's because "CLUTTER_PAINT=redraws" does disable culling and
clipped redraws (i.e same as the workaround).