Performance shock

[Dark Mark]

In reply to the original message: I would be interested to know how well
KDE runs on your Hoary installation, and also whether Warty runs
acceptably.



The reason for this is that I have been using Ubuntu since the day
Warty was released, and also using Hoary while it was in developement
right up until about two weeks before Hoary was released. Everything
always worked flawlessly, and the UI was very snappy and responsive.

However when I installed Hoary (a fresh install), everything suddenly
became extremely sluggish - menus take a while to open and firefox is a
pig to use. The cpu chart in the system monitor applet is often pegged
at over 80% while doing basic tasks like browsing folders with
nautilus, and yet top doesnt show any process using more than about 10%
of the CPU (the exact details escape me, I temporarily deleted my linux
partition).

Even with a very minimal theme everything is just as bad. The KDE
desktop on Hoary, however, works very well and feels responsive, so I
think this must be a problem with the Gnome setup.



What could have changed in the last two weeks of Hoary developement to
make Ubuntu Gnome go from working perfectly well, to almost unusable? I
did not think the developers would make any large changes so close to
release.



Does anyone have any ideas on how to track down the cause of this
problem so I can file a bug? Is there a way I can install Warty, and
upgrade to Hoary as it was two weeks before it was released (a setup
which worked perfectly on my machine) and then gradually update to the
release version of Hoary to see which change caused the problem?



Has anyone else noticed a major drop in performance of Gnome in the
last few weeks of Hoary developement? I think original poster may have
been experiencing something similar to me.



Any suggestions welcome.



Mark


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