This is a very disturbing problem, and actually it sounds as a dealbreaker. I assume you did not find a workaround, but did you find some other documentation to the problem on Launchpad/Xorg issue tracker/blogs?
Thanks for the valuable input! On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:42 AM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda <ladyp...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Elazar, > > Another problem I have been experiencing for the past 3 major Ubuntu > distributions (8.*, 9.*, 10.04, 64 bit OS on a 64 bit dual core) is that the > X becomes extremely slow after a major operation (such as running > heavy-memory Matlab scripts, or even an ad with sound on walla's weather > page). It gives me the feeling that even once the application is long gone, > the memory is still not really freed. > > I tried using google-chrome instead of firefox (which causes this problem > itself sometimes), but it did not help. > > Even logging out does not solve the issue, not even ordering a reboot - I > have to shut down and restart manually when this happens. I can no longer > proudly claim that "Reboot is only due to electricity outages", and I now > consider going back to Debian, in which I do not recall such problems. > > Orna. > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:46 PM, geoffrey mendelson < > geoffreymendel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On May 10, 2010, at 5:05 PM, Elazar Leibovich wrote: >> >> I remeber a few times where users of this mailing list were arguing that >>> ubuntu is a very problematic distribution. >>> I'm evaluating a distribution for developer desktop. >>> Ubuntu seems fitting mainly due to the hardware detection and the ease of >>> configuration. Also, it has up to date versions of many desktop packages. >>> I'll be happy to know which problems did you have with the Ubuntu >>> distribution. >>> Googling with Ubuntu problems etc, did not help me find any informative >>> list of problems. >>> >> >> >> You need to go to the UBUNTU site and look at their problem databases. >> They are very good at tracking problems, less good at fixing them. >> >> The problems I think you will encounter are: >> >> 1. They have a very strict release cycle with deadlines. Problems >> found after the "freeze" date for a distribution are not fixed until after >> the distribution. >> This meant in 9.04 IDE optical drives did not work, ATOM processors >> did not boot and a lot of minor bugs. >> >> The ATOM problem was fixed with the netbook respin, but AFAIK a new >> boot disk of the regular version was never released. >> >> 2. They take about a month after a release to to fix things and then >> often break them. For example, I have a system where gnome stopped working, >> and I have tried reinstalling gnome, deleting prefs, etc and it still does >> not work. It's too involved to reinstall from scratch. >> >> 3, They moved things around and are not like any UNIX or Linux based >> distro. While it's debian based, they forked off a long time ago, and debian >> packages often won't work, nor will any of the administration things you >> know. >> >> 4. They set things up the way they want them and it's darned near >> impossible to make them work properly if it is not what they wanted. Ask >> anyone with a Mac running MacOS 10.5 or 10.6 who wanted to use netatalk. >> >> 5. Long term support is a relative term. Fixes that you would think >> are applied are not carried back. Only the obvious critical ones. >> >> 6. Packages are not updated. Many of them are never updated, some are >> updated daily. I'm still faced with the same bugs in the UBUNTU version of >> Asterisk that were there since the original one that came with the release. >> >> In short a great desktop system for simple users, not a good one for >> someone to maintain or do anything beyond it. >> >> Geoff. >> >> -- >> geoffrey mendelson N3OWJ/4X1GM >> Jerusalem Israel geoffreymendel...@gmail.com >> New word I coined 12/13/09, "Sub-Wikipedia" adj, describing knowledge or >> understanding, as in he has a sub-wikipedia understanding of the situation. >> i.e possessing less facts or information than can be found in the Wikipedia. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> > > > > -- > Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda. > http://ladypine.org >
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