Interface lag in Ubuntu 9.10

[Avi Greenbury]

Huw <huw at synapticsilence.net> wrote:
>								Now,
> reinstalling has drastically improved boot time which I am now sure
> is even faster than 9.04 - although I'm not at all impressed with the
> new Grub which is very slow.  

Which bit is slow? Just the grub bit?
I've never even seen the new grub in real life, but there does seem to
have been a lot of obsessing over bootchart with this release, which I
gather records which parts of booting took the longest.

>				But the interface problems remain.
> While the system itself doesn't seem to underperform in any CPU- or
> disk I/O-intensive tasks, Gnome itself is still pretty unresponsive.
> This is a 64-bit install by the way. I don't know where to even begin
> to troubleshoot this issue.  

Which graphics card have you got, and which driver are you using? Do
you have compiz enabled, or any other GUI fanciness?

Are X or GDM writing anything interesting to their logs?

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