On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Leonid Podolny <leonidp.li...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > My problem is so basic that I even fail to figure out what to > debug/benchmark/google, etc. > My computer feels amazingly sluggish in everything that is UI-related. > For instance, it takes some 10 seconds for Firefox to fire up (counting > from the click on the icon). Same with Konsole -- 5 seconds. Firefox > window maximization -- 3 seconds until the actual window maximizes, and > some more seconds until all the menus/panels are redrawn. The time from > clicking on a checkbox in a webpage till the "V" sign appears is also > noticeable. It happens with both Qt and GTK applications. > The machine is more than strong enough for GUI tasks -- it's T7300 with > 3Gb RAM with i965 graphics. The CPU level is around single percents. The > software is Gentoo Linux, KDE 4.2.3. > Fedora 10 on the other box I have feels MUCH more responsive. The only > difference I can think of is that it has nVidia graphics card. > hdparm shows 50 MB/sec (a bit lowish, but doesn't explain > orders-of-magnitude slowness I exprience). > md5sum of zero-filled file of 1 Gb takes 8 seconds (the second time, so > that it will be read from the cache). > I can't think of other tests. > If you go to System Settings -> Desktop - do you have "Enable desktop effects" checked? If so, try to remove it. Try a generic video driver like vesa Does your user have permissions to write to the /dev/dri/card0 character device? Is the CPU level at single percents when you actually *do* something? Looking on it at idle does not count :) If not, what process occupies most CPU? -- Shimi
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