On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 11:19 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:10 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote: > > I see that both Ubuntu Dapper and Fedora Core 5 test 2 are shipping > > with gnome-screensaver now. > > > > Having now used both of them, does it seem slow for anyone else? It > > seems that something has gone astray once or twice and forced me to > > have to change vt and kill the process to get my session back. > > > > I didn't manage to get anything useful debugging-wise from it, does > > anyone know the story here? > > > > If we have a screensaver that you can't get away from, we should > > consider not including this module during this release cycle. > > I tested a couple of days ago. At first I thought it was awesome. > > Then one time, when I came back from lock screen, my whole X server > suddenly started becoming extremely slow. I mean, _really_ slow, like > taking 5 seconds to draw a window. During the process I kept an eye on > CPU usage and it seemed the X server was not consuming any CPU (unless > the system monitor applet was not redrawing), not disk IO either, it was > just slow for some other reason. Eventually I had to kill the X server. > I tried restarting metacity first but it didn't help. > > I am not sure gnome-screensaver is to be blamed for the above problem, > but I strongly suspect it, and have since then uninstalled it. I'm almost sure it's related to fade in/out. I have the same problem with xscreensaver BUT THANKFULLY, since xscreensaver is not as HIGified as gnome-screensaver, one could remove fade in/out entirely and easily. Now it doesn't lock up, and I removed gnome-screensaver until further notice from y system. I believe it may be trying to fade TOO SMOOTHLY... Rui
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