Have I got an AT hangover?

[Sergio]

--- Em ter, 23/10/12, Joe Feely <joe.feely at googlemail.com> escreveu:

> De: Joe Feely <joe.feely at googlemail.com>
> Assunto: Have I got an AT hangover?
> Para: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Data: Terça-feira, 23 de Outubro de 2012, 12:03
> Hi,
> 
> Videos (e.g. 350MB avi file of 40 minutes playback) don't
> play properly,
> goes out of sync, momentary stops (they play ok on laptop,
> so not
> corrupted).
> The problem seems to have started after I enabled some
> assistive
> technology, which nearly paralysed the performance of the
> computer.
> After disabling and deleting the assistive stuff (su -c "yum
> remove
> at-spi*") the computer is still performing somewhat poorly,
> not being
> able to do as much stuff as before and being generally much
> slower
> (notably when opening multiple web pages, e.g. several
> weather reports,
> about 10 tabs).
> 
> I assumed that there could be something that is still
> kicking in and
> slowing the system down.
> 
> Sorry to be so vague, but I don't recall any better what I
> did.
> I'm running Fedora 16, GNOME 3.2.1 is installed but I use
> XFCE, Kernel
> Linux 3.4.11-1.fc16.i686.PAE, RAM 1.2GB, Processor Intel
> Celeron CPU
> 2.4GHz, Available disk space 84GB.
> My computer is about 7 years old.
> 
> I could reinstall the system, and I'm confident that would
> remove this
> problem, but I would much prefer to find the problem, and
> fix it.
> 
> I have looked at some top output, but don't notice anything
> relevant (if
> anyone wants to see any of such, let me know what to do to
> get useful
> output).
> 
> Any suggestions where I could start or what to look for
> would be welcome.
> 
> TIA,
> Joe

Maybe check stuff in Settings>Session and Startup or even try
rm -rf .cache/sessions

IDK if F16 has this but check that 'tracker' thing too.