Hi, My problem is so basic that I even fail to figure out what to debug/benchmark/google, etc. My computer feels amazingly sluggish in everything that is UI-related. For instance, it takes some 10 seconds for Firefox to fire up (counting from the click on the icon). Same with Konsole -- 5 seconds. Firefox window maximization -- 3 seconds until the actual window maximizes, and some more seconds until all the menus/panels are redrawn. The time from clicking on a checkbox in a webpage till the "V" sign appears is also noticeable. It happens with both Qt and GTK applications. The machine is more than strong enough for GUI tasks -- it's T7300 with 3Gb RAM with i965 graphics. The CPU level is around single percents. The software is Gentoo Linux, KDE 4.2.3. Fedora 10 on the other box I have feels MUCH more responsive. The only difference I can think of is that it has nVidia graphics card. hdparm shows 50 MB/sec (a bit lowish, but doesn't explain orders-of-magnitude slowness I exprience). md5sum of zero-filled file of 1 Gb takes 8 seconds (the second time, so that it will be read from the cache). I can't think of other tests.
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