Major lag problems

Moogler · #1 11th October 2010, 05:46 PM

Hi there, new to fedora but not linux. I've been experiencing a problem that i really don't know how to fix. Opening anything causes a huge amount of lag and sometimes freezes my machine. For example if i try to open my home folder, it takes almost 5 minutes for it to load up, same with anything else i use i.e. firefox, evolution, openoffice.

Now i don't have the best laptop, but it has a decent amount of ram (4 gbs) and a good processor (amd athlon x2 @ 3 ghz). Any idea what is causing the lag issue and how to fix it?

CSchwangler · #2 12th October 2010, 07:24 AM

First thing I would do is open a terminal and start top or even better htop. If you don't have htop installed, get it from the repository. Then perform your actions and see what is on top of the list, i.e. see if there is anything that causes a high CPU usage.

Moogler · #3 16th October 2010, 04:48 AM

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Originally Posted by CSchwangler

First thing I would do is open a terminal and start top or even better htop. If you don't have htop installed, get it from the repository. Then perform your actions and see what is on top of the list, i.e. see if there is anything that causes a high CPU usage.

Installed HTop and tested some things on my computer. So far the problem is the x server. During basic processes i.e. opening a simple folder the memory usage of the x server goes to almost 20-30, and constantly increases with each application i open. I know this certainly can't be normal, so is there any fix to my problem?

CSchwangler · #4 16th October 2010, 07:48 AM

What graphics card and graphics driver are you using? Do you have desktop effects enabled? Are you using a customized xorg.conf (if yes, post it)?

Moogler · #5 16th October 2010, 07:21 PM

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Originally Posted by CSchwangler

What graphics card and graphics driver are you using? Do you have desktop effects enabled? Are you using a customized xorg.conf (if yes, post it)?

I have an ati mobility radeon 4330, using the default radeon drivers that come from just installing fedora, my desktop effects are on standard and am using the out of the box xorg.conf.

Moogler · #6 30th October 2010, 05:26 PM

Still having this problem, any solutions?