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[Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Confirmed. I notice this is still happening with the latest saucy images
on netbooks. Generally everything works fine until you open the dash.
And then you have *minutes* of waiting.

In the past we thought this was due to graphics load. But I think more
likely is the simple issue that netbooks only have 1GB RAM usually. A
large chunk is consumed by graphics, and the rest is not big enough to
cope with Unity7's high memory consumption. So I think we're probably
just thrashing. I have yet to confirm this theory...

** Changed in: mir
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

** Summary changed:

- Dash takes a long time to open when running Mir on Samsung N310 netbook with i915 graphics
+ Dash takes a long time to open when running Mir on a netbook with i915 graphics

** Changed in: unity
       Status: Expired => Confirmed

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Expired => Confirmed

** Changed in: unity
   Importance: Undecided => High

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1195692

Title:
  Dash takes a long time to open when running Mir on a netbook with i915
  graphics

Status in Mir:
  Invalid
Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I've installed Mir on an old Samsung netbook (N310) with an Atom CPU
  and onboard graphics. Everything seems to be normal, expect when I
  open the dash the following happens:

  1.) Press the Super key to open the Dash
  2.) Wait 60 seconds
  3.) A 'ghost' of the Dash appears (high alpha value)
  4.) Wait 60 more seconds
  5.) Dash is at last usable

  Closing the Dash works at the usual speed (not instant but acceptable)

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