Appalling desktop performance in F8

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 17:47, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'd appreciate knowing if anyone else has had similar problems before I
> > roll back to F7.  It is possible that I am having hardware problems, so
> > the F7 roll back may not help.
>
> I am seeing some similar problems with gnome based FC8 applications
> leaking memory horribly which they didn't do before. Not quite the same
> as you report however.
>
> Is there anything logged in dmesg when your system stalls ?

The problem I have on F8 with KDE is that there is horrible flickering on the 
right hand edges of all windows, and icons. I've only had that before on FC2 
on the same machine, while running Boinc. 

At the moment, I have Archlinux booted up on this machine, and the KDE desktop 
is rock steady, not the slightest flicker. The same goes for F7, and FC5, and 
my Debian installs on this machine. It's odd why F8 is behaving this way.

I have had the desktop totally lockup on this machine, needing a hard reset, 
but I run so many distro's on it that I can't remember which one it was.Doh.

Nigel.