Neil Youngman:
>
> Since I "upgraded" to testing my system has been slow, occasionally to the
> point that I have power cycled it because I couldn't get it to respond to
> anything else.
What's in the syslog? Does 'top' report what the system is doing?
> It can take several seconds to pop up a menu and, in the worst case, swapping
> from one window to another can take minutes, even if the other window is a
> simple xterm. I have also observed windows being redrawn so slowly that you
> can can see the rendering creeping slowly down the screen. I think that this
> all indicates that the graphics is the root of the problem.
Can you confirm this by doing something CPU intensive which doesn't draw
anything on the screen? Something like a kernel compile or video/audio
encoding.
J.
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