[Bug 28667] general sluggishness

[Timo Aaltonen]

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28667

Comment:
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Ben Collins wrote:

> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/28667
>
> Comment:
> What kernel are you running? Also, what do you mean by "they are snappy"
> when refering to the flight3 live cd's?

The ones that happen to be in dapper, now it's 2.6.15-12-686. By being 
snappy (hmm, wrong word it seems ;) I mean that they work responsively.

> I'm pretty sure this is X. I would suspect that all the output scrolling
> from find to the screen is causing a lot of interrupts (video, disk) and
> that shared interrupts are making things worse.
>
> Try doing "find / > /dev/null" to see if the affect is the same.

it's lot better, mouse hangs only occasionally, because the system load is 
not that high. Launching something heavy like Openoffice of Firefox 
makes the system crawl, so if the system load gets high, X interactivity 
suffers a lot.

-> xorg?