[Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion

[Jack Bertram]

* Russell Howe <rhowe at wiss.co.uk> [050207 10:41]:
> Jack Bertram wrote:
> >Am I expecting too high a standard?  Is it Gnome's fault?  (To give
> >context, when I ran fluxbox on the Celeron it was much more responsive
> >than Gnome is now on the Athlon64).  
> 
> Gnome in Debian seems very very slow to me (not tried Ubuntu...) 
> compared to the few minutes I spent playing with Fedora where it seemed 
> pretty much lightning-fast. Maybe they do some fancy prelinking or 
> something? I just remember gnome-terminal opening within a second in 
> Fedora whereas it took multiple seconds in Debian on the same box.
> 
> You could always try just running fluxbox without all the gnome stuff on 
> your new Athlon64 as a comparison...

I could, yes, although I'd rather not muck around too much with the base
Ubuntu setup as it makes upgrading harder.

But if Gnome doesn't run fast on this machine, what *does* it take?!

> Of course, there's many more things than just the CPU when it comes to 
> performance. Is there enough RAM for example? Running a full Gnome setup 
> with the panel, metacity, gnome-session-manager etc is going to use a 
> *lot* more RAM than running a fairly simple windowmanager like fluxbox. 
> I'd suggest a minimum of 384M RAM for Gnome, preferably more.

1GB of DDR400 ram in twin 512MB DIMMs, should be dual channeled up.

> Also, you might want to look at epiphany instead of fluxbox - it has a 
> GTK2/gnome interface rather than firefox's XUL one, so the memory 
> footprint should be lighter due to the interactions between 
> copy-on-write and dynamic libraries. It might not make a huge amount of 
> difference with the behemoth that is Gecko, but you can always try it & 
> see...

When you say fluxbox, I presume you mean firefox.  I'll have a look.
Thanks.

jack
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