On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Neil Youngman: > > Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to > > the point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to > > respond to anything else. > > What's in the syslog? Does 'top' report what the system is doing?
There's nothing obviously relevant in the syslog. Various pptp and fetchmail errors, but nothing that would obviously affect performance. > > It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, > > swapping from one window to another can take minutes, even if the other > > window is a simple xterm. I have also observed windows being redrawn so > > slowly that you can can see the rendering creeping slowly down the > > screen. I think that this all indicates that the graphics is the root of > > the problem. > > Can you confirm this by doing something CPU intensive which doesn't draw > anything on the screen? Something like a kernel compile or video/audio > encoding. I'm probably being a bit slow, but right now I'm not clear what I would be looking for. Neil Youngman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201101071820.58586...@youngman.org.uk
