Ubuntu v Fedora on an Inspiron

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> I doubt the problem you're seeing is related to Ubuntu specifically.
> It's more likely a configuration problem e.g. with the X drivers, or
> perhaps you're using Compiz and your video hardware isn't up to it. Or
> maybe you have a slow machine with only a small amount of RAM.
>

It could be firefox specific...if he's running a firefox 3 prerelease or
firefox 3 gold... There was an issue with firefox aggressively requesting a
disk fsync to save state that appeared on linux late in the firefox 3 run
up. Is this person running an affected firefox build on Ubuntu? I've no
idea. In Fedora space this was addressed in an update package in F9.
symptoms can appear as slow system response to the average user.  So... as
long as a F9 install is imediately updated before using the browser..or the
install is done from the Unity respin that is available..you won't see this
particular problem.

For reference:
http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curveballs/

The reference is a good read.  I'm not saying this is the problem he's
seeing... I'm just saying its a new sort of problem that cropped up
recently. Generally speaking the video driver or acceleration issues you
brought up are more likely to be the problem..especially if it still happens
when firefox is not running. We'd need much more information from the
original poster to be sure.

-jef
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