Greetings, F10-Beta snap#1 is dramatically faster on my XO. Still not quite a speed demon. Performance no doubt is the killer right now. It keeps us from moving on to deeper issues on the XO. I'd like to pull together a lot of the recommendations put forth so far into the wiki at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/TestPlans/XO_Performance. Please include any/all suggestions. Before we make the decision to change the target Live image, or to build a XO-specific live image, I'd like to gather all the pain points into one place. From there we can make a recommendation. Thanks, James On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 11:50 -0400, Steven Salevan wrote: > Hey guys, > At the moment, it appears that GNOME is borderline dysfunctional on my > XO, despite applying the recommended speed fixes (creating a persistent > overlay, turning off swappiness). On runlevel 3, the box seems to be > stable and at least usable, but if I switch over to runlevel 5, I cannot > use the box for more than about 3 minutes without receiving a kernel > panic that leads to a total system freeze. Alas, this panic is not > logged to any system log, but I'll be connecting up a serial console > over the next day or two get it off of the system and into a new BZ. > > Outside of the panic issue, how goes GNOME testing for everyone else on > the list? For the few minutes that the device actually works, the > system seems to crawl along at glacial speeds, taking over a minute to > bring up simple tools such as the Appearance preferences configurator. > Firefox takes more time to load than the box has before reaching the > aforementioned system freeze. > > So... if my hunch is right, and I fear it is, I don't know if 2.5 > weeks' worth of testing is going to ensure that we ship a functional > GNOME-laden version of F10. From what I've read and heard, the plan is > to maintain a sizeable swap space on the SD card, as the 256MB of > built-in RAM alone is not sufficient to run GNOME, which will wear out > the card in time along with limiting available space (especially if > we're leaning on shipping the 2G card with each XO). > > This might be a controversial viewpoint, and if so, so be it, but I > wonder if we shouldn't change our focus to a more lightweight window > manager such as XFCE. There's already been work performed to this effect: > > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/fedora-xo;a=summary > > GNOME may indeed be more familiar to users, but what use is familiarity > if there's no functionality? At least XFCE can run comfortably on the > limited resources of the XO, allowing us to focus on the issues that we > can indeed address in the limited time we have. What do you guys think? > -Steve Salevan > ssalevan@xxxxxxxxxx
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