F16xfce incredibly slow

[Beartooth]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:03:51 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 27.12.2011, 19:15 +0000 schrieb Beartooth:
>> 	What would make F16xfce slower than cold molasses, on a machine
>> where F14gnome kept up normal speed? Firefox is not running, nor is
>> Opera.
> 
> Is the machine just slow or is it busy? How about checking with 'top'?

	Good point. I don't yet have my nice little monitoring app on the 
bottom panel, or I'd've glanced at that. Here's what I see.

~$ top

top - 15:36:08 up 1 day,  1:18, 11 users,  load average: 4.82, 4.78, 4.54
Tasks: 182 total,   1 running, 179 sleeping,   0 stopped,   2 zombie
Cpu(s): 69.9%us, 14.8%sy,  0.4%ni, 14.5%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.2%si,  
0.0%st
Mem:   2968592k total,  2771740k used,   196852k free,   151484k buffers
Swap:  5079036k total,    24544k used,  5054492k free,  2007656k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  
COMMAND               
 4251 btth2     20   0 54716  12m  10m S  9.5  0.4  65:18.68 gtk-
gnash             
18012 btth2     20   0  2872 1084  804 R  3.8  0.0   0:00.03 
top                   
 4376 btth2     20   0 54272  13m  10m S  1.9  0.5  12:06.17 gtk-
gnash             
32356 root      20   0  104m  31m  18m S  1.9  1.1  40:22.77 
Xorg                  
    1 root      20   0  5604 3244 1700 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.58 
systemd               
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 
kthreadd              
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:07.58 
ksoftirqd/0           
    5 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/
u:0           
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
migration/0           
    7 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.79 
watchdog/0            
    8 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
cpuset                
    9 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
khelper               
   10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
kdevtmpfs             
   11 root       0 -20     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 
netns                 
   12 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.35 
sync_supers           

	I don't know what that gtk-gnash is. I don't have any moving 
images moving anywhere.
-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.