On Saturday, February 12, 2011 09:53:28 am M. Fioretti wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 15:25:54 PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > There are lots of other things it could be, unfortunately you've not > > provided any really useful information on the machine, you've not > > provided any dumps of stuff that would be useful > > I have now, in comments to the article. I certainly did not expect to > get the complete answer in one step (as I wrote at the end of that > page), I wrote everything I thought useful in that page. And I had put > "little details like which X server is being run" in that page since > the beginning, in the form I thought it could be enough, ie attaching > the installed RPM packages. And I also _acknowledged_ right there that > it couldn't be enough "so please tell me what other inputs do you > need, thanks". > > > On an 8GB box with Intel onboard video even Gnome is usable so > > something is definitely wrong in your specific setup > > exactly my point :-) I am sure a big part of the problem is > Firefox+Flash, but can that be the WHOLE problem? As I wrote in the > article, it's not like killing Firefox (while it does improve things) > solves everything. > > Dmesg output is pasted below. Boot, reboot or not it makes no > difference. let it go ten minutes, and it starts behaving like > that. > > Thanks again for your quick support! Just ask for more tests if > needed. > > Marco > > [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset > [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu > [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 .... That is something I hadn't thought of. What devices are connected to your system? Perhaps a Linux driver, for a device is having problems. Perhaps a device is generating lots of interrupts. Can you disconnect any devices and see if the slowness goes away?
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