On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 15:52, Chris Hoover wrote: > Hi, > > I finally have gotten a clean install of gnome2 for my unstable dist > laptop, and I'm having some strange problems with gnome2 and was > wondering if anyone else is having them > > 1. I have a 1.7 Ghz p4m laptop with 512megs mem. However, gnome > feels extreamly sluggish. An example of this would be working in one > terminal for an extended period of time and then try to highlight the > 5 desktop icons. It will take a noticable amount of time for the > icons to be highlighted, and there will be no "shadow" box appearing > showing that area of the desktop I'm trying to highlight. However, if > I immediatly try to do the same thing, it appears to work fine and the > performance is much better. I am noticing this in several places > doing different things. > I have a very similarly powered system and the only performance issue I have found is with gnome-terminal killing my cpu when scrolling. This appears to be related to using the vesa xfree86 driver rather than an accelerated one. What you are describing sounds like a nautilus problem. If you kill nautilus (and remove it from the session to prevent respawning) do the other problems go away?
Anything in your ~/.xsession-errors ? > 2. When I try to launch gnome stuff from the menu or from a launcher > icon and there is the afore mentioned sluggishness, it causes xmms to > pause for a brief period of time. > > I have had top running during the problems, but there is never a load > on my machine. I am hoping that these are problems with gnome or the > packaging that will be fixed and not a "standard feature". It seems > that gnome should just fly on a machine like mine since I have both > the memory and the horsepower. > Now this sounds like a disk access problem, I wonder if that is the cause of (1) as well. Have you fiddled with hdparm at all? What does hdparm -t /dev/hda give you? Perhaps your disk is spinning down and waking back up when you perform one of these actions. Does anyone know if there is a way to see whether the disk is spun down (other than putting your ear to the system :-)? -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
