Recently I have run into the bug in GNOME3 that has after a period of time, created the same result. I have gone to MATE as a stopgap, and it works fine. Here is the RH bugzilla entry, and the centos listing: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812624 https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7188 On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Leo Brandewie <lbrandewie at dslextreme.com> wrote: > I see. Thanks for the response. > > > > On 11/10/2014 8:32 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>> >>> loaded the Gnome desktop >> >> I think I see part of your problem right there. The Gnome3 desktop is >> amazing bloatware. If your RAM is not generously allocated for all the >> debris on a typical Gnome desktop, you'll start swapping as well as >> sucking CPU for pointless 3D acceleration, especially in a VM. >> >> You also didn't mention which virtualization technology you used. A VM >> that supports paravirtualization, can be far more efficient than a VM >> for which a server must do full virtualization. >> >>> I'm astounded. I have no way of knowing if the problem is also present in >>> RHEL 7. I can say it's not at all present in CentOS 6.5. I have a fair >>> amount of experience with that OS. >> >> Compare apples to apples. Try a much lighter window manager and see if >> you have the same performance issue with something like XFCE. If you'd >> like to be really retro, you can grab my vtwm building tools at >> https://github.com/nkadel/vtwm-5.5.x-srpm and use something older, >> more stable, and much lighterweight than any of those that compiles >> from the same codebase on either basic OS. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-devel mailing list >> CentOS-devel at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel >