[SOLVED] (kinda): fedora 20 box so slow to be unusable

[M. Fioretti]

the person using that computer tells me that, after I told him to try 
Mate
or Cinnamon WITHOUT "software acceleration" the computer started to
behave decently. So the issue is closed, so to speak. Still, I'd like
to know more about how to handle such analyses automatically.

For now, thanks to all who answered!

Marco

On 2015-05-28 16:37, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On 2015-05-28 14:43, Dan Mossor wrote:
> 
>> Well, one way to check if it is indeed the video driver is to stop the
>> service utilizing it. issue 'systemctl stop kdm' from your ssh session
>> (or sddm if you've switched it to that, kdm was still default in F20).
>> This will stop the desktop processes and drop the machine to a
>> console. If your ssh session suddenly speeds up, then you know it has
>> something to do with video.
> 
> I tried that, but it doesn't produce any noticeable effect on my side 
> (as
> I said, the other box is on a slow connection, so that's the major 
> bottleneck
> that keeps things slow when I connect there). What I reported earlier,
> i.e. deleting characters with the backspace key in a terminal, happens
> on a **local** terminal, inside an X session of that computer, from its
> keyboard.
> 
> Marco

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