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. 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!! -- 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