Is it just me or does Xorg/Gnome seem slow and clunky to any other
desktop users once the 6.7 upgrade is done?
$ uname -a
Linux CentOS501.homegroannetwork 2.6.32-573.1.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP
Sat Jul 25 17:05:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS release 6.7 (Final)
Top shows
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
32160 root 20 0 259m 104m 22m R 76.5 1.3 559:07.79 Xorg
23391 hardtolo 20 0 6293m 215m 26m S 16.9 2.7 21:49.86 java
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And several instances of Xorg (one per user in addition to the shown
root instance), java, FF, soffice.bin, a plugin-container for FF, ...
Using stock Gnome Desktop with three active X sessions, 6 desktops for
two users, multiple FF instances with multiple tabs.
6-core AMD 3200PR with ...
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8057856 5285484 2772372 34136 298992 1883828
-/+ buffers/cache: 3102664 4955192
Swap: 14352376 0 14352376
First caught my attention as *usually* FF is the hog, although I have
seen Xorg bee the hog aoccasionally in the past.
What next caught me is when using Ksnapshot to select a region of the
screen the "window" no longer keeps up with my mouse movements, but lags
and is "jerky".
I have no custom xorg config, but have commented out the FF startup
in /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients:
# Argh! Nothing good is installed. Fall back to twm
{
# gosh, neither fvwm95 nor fvwm2 is available;
# fall back to failsafe settings
[ -x /usr/bin/xsetroot ] && /usr/bin/xsetroot -solid '#222E45'
if [ -x /usr/bin/xclock ] ; then
/usr/bin/xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
elif [ -x /usr/bin/xclock ] ; then
/usr/bin/xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 &
fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/xterm ] ; then
/usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 &
fi
# Commented out firefox stuff.
# if [ -x /usr/bin/firefox -a -f /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html ];
then
# /usr/bin/firefox /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html &
# fi
if [ -x /usr/bin/twm ] ; then
exec /usr/bin/twm
fi
}
As a starting point I did (wrapping - I tried to clean a bit)
$ ps -ef|grep '32160\|32155\|11398'
root 841 11398 0 Aug12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave
--display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display3
root 11398 1 0 Aug12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
root 11461 11398 0 Aug12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave
--display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display1
500 24891 1441 0 17:39 pts/42 00:00:00 grep 32160\|32155\|11398
root 32155 11398 0 Aug12 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/gdm-simple-slave
--display-id /org/gnome/DisplayManager/Display2
root 32160 32155 26 Aug12 tty7 09:33:09 /usr/bin/Xorg :1 -br
-verbose -audit 4 auth /var/run/gdm/auth-for-gdm-4U2Ps1/database
-nolisten tcp
root 32221 32155 0 Aug12 ? 00:00:00 pam: gdm-password
If no one else is seeing this sort of "slowdown" and has any clues where
to start looking I'd appreciate hearing your suggestions.
TIA for any thoughts,
Bill