On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 21:50 -0800, john wendel wrote: > <Rant mode> > > I recently "upgraded" my computer at work from FC6 to F10 and > performance went from OK to barely usable. The box is an ancient PIII > 900 MHz with 512 MB memory, a PCI Nvidia graphics card with the free nv > driver, a 1600x1200 monitor, and a slow 13 GB disk (your US tax dollars > at work). > > With FC6, I ran KDE 3.5 without any problems. I could drag and resize > windows without glitches, scrolling was slow but basically usable, and > Vim in a console (where I spend most of my time) was pleasant to use. > > Now with F10 I'm using XFCE, and the box is a total P.O.S. Resizing or > moving a window is a nightmare, the screen redraw is too slow to keep up > with the cursor, and I see lots of screen glitches. When I open an app > like Firefox with a complicated screen, I see the screen being drawn in > individual pieces. Scrolling text in a Vim console is much too slow to > be usable. > > Non-X applications run fine, so I've concluded that X is the problem. I > could submit a bugzilla, "X performance went to hell", but I doubt that > it would be taken seriously. I don't really expect any help here, but > I'll be happy to try any suggestions. > > There, now I feel better. Thanks for listening. ---- obviously you're feeling the effects of swap you should open a terminal running 'top' to see where the memory & cpu power is being siphoned rather than just speculating. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
