On 03/30/2011 12:10 AM, JD wrote:
On 03/29/2011 08:08 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> On 03/29/2011 10:43 PM, JD wrote:
>> On 03/29/2011 06:28 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 03/29/2011 05:08 PM, JD wrote:
>>>> Can this be attributed to Gnome or to the X server
>>>> or to the ATI Radeon driver?
>>> I'm using F 14 and Gnome and see no problems even though my mobo's
maxed
>>> out at 1G RAM. Probably the driver.
>> Well, it is taking up to 3.5 seconds for the windows
>> in a workspace to get populated and fully visible
>> when I switch to that workspace.
> What is the load avg on the system in question? I have seen similar on
> my system when the load avg starts to climb (anything> 5 is really
> bad). But, when he load avg is low, redraws should be good.
>
>> It used to be almost instantaneous in F13.
>> I have 2GB ram, and 12 GB swap space, but
>> very few apps running. Most of the time I have
>> 6 workspaces, each with a separate FireFox window,
> Firefox is a resource *PIG*. Since it is one application, I'd look into
> how much memory it is using (both in ram and in swap), and whether or
> not any of its windows are doing anything (like displaying FLASH or
> active JAVA applets).
>
>> and up to 4 4 workspaces, each with a gnome terminal.
>> and 1 workspace with Thunderbird.
> How big are your mailboxes? Thunderbird can also slow you down if you
> have large mailboxes.
>
>> Hardly any space is used in swap. To wit:
>>
>> # swapon -s
>> Filename Type Size Used Priority
>> /dev/sda3 partition 4200992 17540 -1
>> /dev/sdb2 partition 8385924 0 -2
> What does your performance look like after you close *every* firefox
> window and thunderbird? [make sure firefox is no longer running.]
>
Here's my load average as reported by top:
top - 21:02:44 up 1 day, 6:41, 5 users, load average: 0.17, 0.30, 0.73
The 5 users are myself: the main Gnome login session,
and 4 Gnome-terminal login shells (I always start the gnome terminal
as a login shell (-ls) )
Guy, it is not the system load. Under fc13, even when I had multiple
kernel builds going, 6 FF windows, each with 3 to 4 tabs, and Thunderbird
running, switching workspaces was snappy.
Something is terribly wrong with Xserver or Gnome, or Ati Radeon Driver,
or all 3.
On your hardware. I am also using F14 on my laptop (x86_64) with the
ATI driver, and I only see the problems you see under high system load,
which easily happens with thunderbird open (quite a few *large*
mailboxes) and a *lot* of tabs in 1 firefox window. Especially when
letting a FLASH window or two run for a couple of hours....
Since I closed firefox (I now use Google chrome sparingly, and close it
when I'm done), I'm running *much* better. My load avg hasn't shot up
yet (and it should have started doing so already based on my hightly
cron jobs!). I'll know more tomorrow morning after I suspend it an
restart it.
What's worse: it will be exceedingly difficult for me to roll
back to fc13.
Isn't progress wonderful!
I hope an Xorg developer sees this!!
I don't think they'll be interested unless you can prove its your xorg
driver.
Just another thought, how long since you rebooted last? Sometimes xorg
updates can require a reboot to work right. When was the last xorg
update you installed?
I suspect you have something mis-configured, but I have no clue as to
what right now.
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Kevin J. Cummings
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