Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
Hi, you might remember I wrote about patterned slowdown over the GNOME
desktop last week. Since then my superblock was corrupted, the entire
root partition was lost, and I had to reinstall (twice). On the bright
side, the new Fedora system is much faster than before, and does not
suffer from the slowdown issue. I am using the latest kernel now, with
the oss nv driver.
But... I do see a strange issue, that I don't think is normal. When
switching from a maximized app to an empty workspace, redraw of the
background is particularly slow - it takes about 1 sec on Athlon 1600+.
During that time the icons disappear. This might not seem slow, but it
gets really annoying. The CPU spikes to 100% every time. I see the same
thing when opening new folders in nautilus. I don't use nautilus for
file management, but I imagine this would be really annoying for those
that do. (as an aside, I am trying to test this w/ fullscreen folders,
but the spatial feature that remembers where each folder was opened and
how large it is doesn't seem to work currently)
Is anyone else seeing the same issue.....
I was not seeing this before, but I was using the accelerated nvidia
driver.
I'm seeing the same things and in my case it has to do with Xorg hitting
fallback paths and using the CPU where it should use the on-card blitter.
This happens with the radeon driver (on an r300 based card) and the nv
driver (on a gforce 2mx). It seems pixmaps are stored in host memory rather
than the on-card memory which prevents the blitter from accessing them.
Regards,
Dennis
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