I run Debian unstable with a self compiled kernel 2.4.20 Gnome 2.2, metacity latest nautilus and XFree etc... Detailed configuration attached as a compressed file. Evolution is the only application (apart from panels and nautilus) running most of the time. Since I upgraded to gnome 2.2 (I never used gnome 2.0 on that machine), my graphical environment became so slow I am about to start reinstalling from scratch my system if it doesn't get solved soon. Any operation related to widgets or workspace put my system down for 5-10 seconds! Unbelievable. I had no problem running Gnome 1.4 under kernel 2.4.18 and NVidia 1.2910. The machine is a 1.2 Ghz laptop with 512 Mo. E.g. of operation that put my system down: - open the context menu in nautilus - switch workspace - kill an application Doing my investigation I noticed by doing this in a shell: while [ 1 ] ; do procinfo; sleep 2; done that memory goes up 4-5 Mo each time I open or close the menu that comes by right clicking on my desktop. it goes up and down when I open it, AND it goes up and down when I release. But the memory allocated while displaying the context menu is the same as the one allocated -before- I open the menu. Strange isn't it? Anybody with similar problems? Any idea where to look at to get more information? Could it be related to fonts? Cheers, Jerome
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