Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.
On Friday 07 Jan 2011 16:53:05 Jochen Schulz wrote:
> 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?
There's nothing obviously relevant in the syslog. Various pptp and fetchmail
errors, but nothing that would obviously affect performance.
> > 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.
I'm probably being a bit slow, but right now I'm not clear what I would be
looking for.
Neil Youngman
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