Re: bad performance

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Chad Cunningham <ccunning@math.ohio-state.edu> writes:
> I recently built a new machine and gnome is not running well at all. The
> mouse hangs, things are drawn incredibly slowly, mouse movents are jerky,
> etc. The machine is a Athalon 850 with 256 megs RAM and a 32 MB Matrox
> G400. I am using the latest Helix-code stuff with gnome-1.2.1 and have
> tried both englightenment and sawmill for a window manager. The same setup
> on my PII350/128/Permedia2 runs perfectly fine, and WindowMaker on my
> Athalon runs great. Any idea what the gnome problem might be?
> 

Have you tried running "top" to see if something is using lots of CPU?

Sounds like your X server is slow though, which isn't GNOME really.

Havoc