Re: Garnome-2.8.0 unusually CPU hungry?

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

Tobias Ottmar wrote:
> Thanks for your replies,
> well, I'm running the 2.6.7 version of the fedora core 2 kernel and my
> hdparms are set to full performance.
> I also have KDE and GNOME-2.6 installed here and in both environments, I
> have absolutely no problems! It's only Garnome-2.8 that makes trouble.
> For the moment, as a workaround, I switch to a normal linux console (ALT
> +F?) and compile there. Compiling in a garnome-console gives the
> described problems...

Do you have the composite extension on in X? I noticed my system 
performance slow to a crawl due to incompatibilities with Gnome2.8 
combined with composite, even when the xcompmgr wasn't running.

--Pat