Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 09:21, Terry Barnaby wrote:
Hi,
I have Fedora 2 with all updates to 1/11/04. I use KDE as the desktop.
On several systems I have the same problem:
If I try and Select some text within Mozilla or OpenOfficem, using the
mouse, there is quite often a long delay before the text is shown as
selected. This delay is around 2-3 secs. This occurs frequenty, but not
all of the time.
Also if I click on the vitual desktop to move desktops, occasionly the
KDE desktop will appear to lockup for about 10secs. The system appears
to start to do this after being logged in for some time.
Any ideas ?
You might try disabling IPv6 support. Have seen a few threads in the
past where disabling IPv6 (completely) improved performance.
Have not seen similar problems with Mozilla but have seen something
similar in OpenOffice. When a word is underscored as miss-spelled and
you right click on it the system seems to beat the disk drive to death
for as long as 30 seconds sometimes before presenting the menu. I
believe this is a problem in Openoffice as similar dictionary support in
Evolution works fairly quickly.
You need to supply information on how much memory your system has and
the processor type/speed. Also check your system to see if you are
hitting swap space or not. (should be able to use the free or top
command to see how much swap is being used)
Also check the load average using the uptime command.
I have disabled IPv6 (a bit ?) by setting "alias net-pf-10 off" in modprobe.conf.
One system is a dual Xeon 2.4GHz system with 1GByte memory, hyperthreading on,
swap space is not in use.
One system is a Pentium 4 2.4GHz with 512MByte of memory, swap space is not in use.
One system is an IBM 600e laptop with Pentium 2 366MHz and 256MByte of RAM, swap space is
sometimes in use a bit.
There is no load on the systems when this occurs.
I do have KDE set to "Focus Under Mouse", I will try the systems with
this off ....
Terry
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