Folling a major update with sync followed by -vuD --world I'm seeing visible slowness in X when I move a window or scroll a buffer.
I'm running kde 3.5 desktop (kdebase) but I did most of the update in console mode and then wanted to try one of the fast light window managers. So installed `fluxbox' and started it up. I saw really slow and noticable sloth when moving a window. It redrew from the bottom up (an xterm) and took most or all of a second. I thought it was fluxbox and was pretty disgusted after all the hype I've seen about how fast it is. But then starting up kde and I see the same thing but not quite as bad. Or at least to my eye it seemed a little faster but still not even close to what I saw before the update. This is a celeron 3.06 Ghz with 2GB ram so not exactly under powered. And I know it isn't the machine since it was not acting like this before the update. Here is an example.... I'm typing this in an emacs terminal running under X. If I move the terminal even an 1/8 of inch I see redraw happen in two pulses either up and down or down and up taking very close to a second. At this moment I have Konqueror, emacs and two xterms running. Looking at top I see 96 to 99 percent idle: Top shows: top - 19:37:27 up 20:02, 6 users, load average: 0.14, 0.06, 0.02 Tasks: 99 total, 2 running, 97 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 1.0% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 98.7% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 2075536k total, 1728552k used, 346984k free, 603132k buffers Swap: 2008116k total, 0k used, 2008116k free, 684584k cached So resources are not starved... I'm kind of lost as to how to debug further... Does the 97 sleeping jobs indicate some kind of problem or is that pretty normal? Any other suggestions for debugging? Cam I do something about this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
