Gnome Performance with Accessibility On

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Hello,

I'm using the garnome-0.27.1 release of Gnome, with Gnopernicus from CVS. 
I've noted the following three performance issues. I don't think they are 
due to Gnopernicus, but I can't test Gnome with accessibility turned off. 

1. Sometimes, within a few seconds of typing startx, my machine appears to 
freeze completely. Not even control-alt-del will get it to reboot. I've 
had to press the reset button. This happens long before Gnopernicus could 
load, so it must be due to something else.

2. If I start Gnome successfully, use it for a bit, and then switch to a 
text console to do other things, it periodically interferes whith the text 
console by slowing down the machine. It appears that some process is using 
a lot of CPU time. Are there Gnome processes that I can stop after Gnome 
starts? How do I do so?

3. In many situations there is a very perceptible lag between pressing a 
key and the response. This is especially noticeable in menus and on the 
desktop. It is not noticeable when arrowing through a folder. But in gedit 
the delay between pressing a key and its appearance on the screen is quite 
perceptible. My machine is a 400MhZ Athlon with 320MB of memory. I wonder 
if just setting the accessibility key to true slows down the machine. 

Thanks,
John


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John J. Boyer; Executive Director, Chief Software Developer
Computers to Help People, Inc.
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