To test that, I compared my W510 against a friend's W500 (which had also been upgraded). We started "top" and then selected "System->Preferences" and using the down-arrow key to cycle through the menu options. "top" showed XOrg topping my CPU at up to 99%, his CPU maybe hit 10% at one point. You are correct in that when Gnome is doing whatever-it-is-that-is-slow, XOrg is taking up significantly more CPU than it does on a normal system. The W510 has an nVidia Quadro FX 880M, which is "fairly" new and I've been using the nvidia drivers (at the native resolution of 1920x1080). Switching to nouveau (which chose 1024x768) resulted in normal behavior (everything became snappy again). So, it appears there's something "up" with nVidia/Gnome/XOrg. :( I wonder if anyone else using gnome + nvidia on a machine with an 880M would also experience the same annoying. behavior... Thoughts? On 11/03/2010 03:56 PM, stan wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:43:35 -0500 >> Brian Ericson<bericson@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thanks for the reply! If only... It's acting as though it's under >> significant load, but top/iotop/etc. show a completely idle system. > That sounds like it is internally spinning its wheels. It should show > up in top though as CPU cycles being spent uselessly. > > What could slow down things without using CPU cycles? > > Contention on the hardware bus? Try unplugging and replugging your > keyboard and mouse. > > How about overheating? Is it possible the system is now slowing down > the CPU significantly because it is too hot? > > I'm at a loss, especially since KDE functions normally and some > functions in Gnome work fine. > > Certainly something strange going on. Are you fully updated to the > latest packages? -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
