On 21 July 2010 11:37, David Nielsen <gnomeu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 2010/7/21 Scott E. Armitage <launch...@scott.armitage.name> > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The other issue is that if some app starts accessing the hard disc / use >>> some CPU, everything seems to stop completely. Just now I ran some updates >>> while trying to type this email and Firefox started "grey screening" me >>> every few seconds. Why? The updates seem to use all the CPU and leave the >>> applications struggling to even refresh. I'm not saying this is an Ubuntu >>> specific thing, obviously we've all seen Window's "The application is not >>> responding" dialog, but I know that I see the greyed window on Ubuntu far >>> more than that dialog on Windows. And in my experience, the Windows dialog >>> actually appears when that program is hanging, not because another program >>> is busy. >>> >> >> I have noticed this "grey screening" a lot too, and it really gets on my >> nerves; I have four processing cores, each capable of multi-threading -- no >> matter what I'm doing on my computer, I expect the user interface to be >> completely responsive. I know this is not a trivial task, but Windows 7 is >> currently doing a much better job of this. >> > > Something does seem to be going on in Maverick right now, it has started > happening a lot more often on my meager machine. It would be good if we had > some way of figuring out exactly what is going on. > > - >
How about starting just Firefox from the terminal so you can track what it does? Anzan
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