Mike A. Harris wrote:
Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
Dax Kelson wrote:
I installed rawhide on a beefy desktop computer.
AMD FX-55 CPU
2GB RAM
300GB SATA RAID1 (testing out the new dmraid integration)
Nvidia 6800GT 256MB video (Qty 2 -- SLI)
1600x1200 resolution
I haven't quantified it yet, but desktop GNOME performance seems very
sluggish. Many seconds to launch apps. Many seconds for the GNOME panel
menu to drop down and populate with icons. In general the lack of
performance is bad enough to be very noticeable and annoying.
One trick which improved performance from what you describe to ok for
me, was rerunning fc-cache - I had a directory of fonts in my home
directory, and it seemed to parse them every time something started.
At some point in FC5 development, a fontconfig update seems to have
been rather buggy, and caused performance problems also. I don't
know the details, but the package maintainer and others have alluded
to this, and runtime behaviour was certainly suggestive of it as well.
I recompiled the xorg-x11-server package with this patch a couple of
minutes ago:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4320#c11
The performance increase on the desktop this bug delivers is quite dramatic.
Regards,
Dennis
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