suse 11.1 gnome slow

[gerard4143]

Does anyone find suse 11.1 gnome much slower than suse 11.0 gnome? I installed it a few days ago(suse 11.1) and find it incredibly slow for some apps...

[daark.child]

I can't say I have noticed any differences. Have you disabled things like beagle (an indexing tool). Sometimes Beagle and similar tools can slow down your system.

[gogalthorp]

Run top from a console and see if you can tell what is eating CPU cycles

[gerard4143]

After investigating the problem(s) I narrowed it down to two things

1. a buggy app - GNOME system monitor is incredibly slow starting up 5+ secs

and

2. my cpu clock speed isn't switching very fast i.e if my cpu speed is 1.0 GHz it takes some time to switch to 2.7 GHz and it produces this effect when I try to move an app over anther app (the screen capture looks a lot worse than it is)...See attachment below

Note special effects are not engaged....Gerard4143

Also I'm running a AMD athlon x86_64 with 3G memory

[Cool01]

I think it is worth it for you to open a Bugzilla bug about it, at least for the purposes of discussion.

After investigating the problem(s) I narrowed it down to two things

1. a buggy app - GNOME system monitor is incredibly slow starting up 5+ secs

How far over 5 seconds? When you think about what it is doing now, 5 seconds is quite reasonable. It now reports all that hardware information. I think that is bad move. It should only report that stuff if a user specifically runs a request for it. For most people that information is not going to change for the life of the computer, so why dig around for it every time you run the Monitor?

If you want to "speed up" calling that program, consider putting small version in the bottom "panel". Right click on the panel and use the "Add" option. That way it is at least partly running on startup. I think most of it is still started after, if you click on the panel applet to get the full program running, but I think that it starts a daemon process.

2. my cpu clock speed isn't switching very fast i.e if my cpu speed is 1.0 GHz it takes some time to switch to 2.7 GHz

. . .

Also I'm running a AMD athlon x86_64 with 3G memory

It should be possible to do something about that, but it is a hard one to design. I have read criticism of the switching algorithm even in Windows. At least one writer mentioned that it caused minor problems when watching DVDs, or something like that.

[Cool01]

To answer your earlier question, no I have not felt that 11.1 is particularly slower than 11.0. It might be "here and there" -- like the System Monitor issue you mention. Partly, it depends on where specific programs all on your hard drive. That is why advanced users will start looking into things like complex partition layouts and which form of EXT3 "journaling" is used. It is also possible that the boot time is growing longer with every new version, with new stuff being done in the boot script. But that does not mean there is no room for improvement.

[gerard4143]

Your right Cool01 the (new) GNOME system monitor does include the hardware listing and that would explain the delayed start up...Thanks. I wonder if the upgrade to cairo 1.8.0 would explain the graphics problems I'm experiencing with my apps...I say this because its supposed to be backwards compatible but I have a small simple GTK+/cairo program that behaves differently in Suse 11.1..

this is from /usr/share/doc/packages/cairo/news

"The cairo community is happy (and relieved) to announce the 1.8.0
release of the cairo graphics library. This is a major update to
cairo, with new features and enhanced functionality which maintains
compatibility for applications written using any previous major cairo
release, (1.6, 1.4, 1.2, or 1.0). We recommend that anybody using a
previous version of cairo upgrade to cairo 1.8.0."

Thanks for the help...Gerard4143

[LogashenkoDL]

I have installed OpenSUSE 11.1 last weekend (replacing 11.0) and can say definitly that on my computer it is slower than 11.0. And I agree: This is X11 (not just Gnome - I am a KDE3 user) that slows the whole system. I think, the reason is my video card (integrated Intel i845) that is poorly supportet by the system. It caused problems also last time, as I installed 11.0. But that time the installation process ran OK (although in comic colours) and the system worked perfectly. This time, I had to cancel the installation at the stage of the video card recognition because I could not see anything except for horizontal stripes. But after rebooting, the system worked OK and I continued the tuning manually. Now, after booting and entering the password in the login window, the display shows the stipes again for several seconds but starts kdm normally, so that I can work with the full resolution and the 24-bit colour. And only one but very essential remark: The graphics is extremely slow, but not in all aspects. When typing text, the letters are plotted at the normal speed, but the vertical scrolling etc is extremely slow. If I boot with the option x11failsafe, the much lower resolution and the worse colour scheme is switched on, and everything works quickly. I tried to reduce the resolution (or the colour scheme) by SaX2, but it does not save the options! I lets you to try the mode, but the optoins do not take the effect even after rebooting! The second start of SaX2 indicates the initial state of the options. Can somebody comment on this situation? What is that? A bug? What is the best hint: To return to 11.0?

[gerard4143]

What is the best hint: To return to 11.0?

I switched to Mandriva and never looked back...moving too fast...Gerard4143