What does top show for resource usage when this happens ? I'm running fc3rd3 and it seems pretty spunky. On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 00:35 +0200, Darek Borkowski wrote: > Hi, I sent this as bug as: Bugzilla Bug 134625: Gnome extremely slow > after aplication crash, but without results. The bug remains NEW. > I think current problem is somewhat related to 134625. I've noticed > that Gnome apps (e.g. fonts preferences, laptop battery applet, > gnome-panel, but other also) hangs quite frequently. Then the window > of application stalls and the only way is to click on Closw WIndow > button, wait for confirmation requester and select: Yes I want to > quit/kill this app. > After that, Gnome is extremely slow in running other apps about one > minute. After that the Gnome works normal. > > Darek Borkowski >