<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Leonid Podolny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leonidp.lists@gmail.com">leonidp.lists@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
My problem is so basic that I even fail to figure out what to<br>
debug/benchmark/google, etc.<br>
My computer feels amazingly sluggish in everything that is UI-related.<br>
For instance, it takes some 10 seconds for Firefox to fire up (counting<br>
from the click on the icon). Same with Konsole -- 5 seconds. Firefox<br>
window maximization -- 3 seconds until the actual window maximizes, and<br>
some more seconds until all the menus/panels are redrawn. The time from<br>
clicking on a checkbox in a webpage till the "V" sign appears is also<br>
noticeable. It happens with both Qt and GTK applications.<br>
The machine is more than strong enough for GUI tasks -- it's T7300 with<br>
3Gb RAM with i965 graphics. The CPU level is around single percents. The<br>
software is Gentoo Linux, KDE 4.2.3.<br>
Fedora 10 on the other box I have feels MUCH more responsive. The only<br>
difference I can think of is that it has nVidia graphics card.<br>
hdparm shows 50 MB/sec (a bit lowish, but doesn't explain<br>
orders-of-magnitude slowness I exprience).<br>
md5sum of zero-filled file of 1 Gb takes 8 seconds (the second time, so<br>
that it will be read from the cache).<br>
I can't think of other tests.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>If you go to System Settings -> Desktop - do you have "Enable desktop effects" checked? If so, try to remove it.<br><br>Try a generic video driver like vesa<br><br>Does your user have permissions to write to the /dev/dri/card0 character device?<br>
<br>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?<br><br>-- Shimi<br></div></div></div>