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[David Nielsen <gnomeuser@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/7/21 Scott E. Armitage <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The other issue is that if some app starts accessing the hard disc / use
>> some CPU, everything seems to stop completely. Just now I ran some updates
>> while trying to type this email and Firefox started "grey screening" me
>> every few seconds. Why? The updates seem to use all the CPU and leave the
>> applications struggling to even refresh. I'm not saying this is an Ubuntu
>> specific thing, obviously we've all seen Window's "The application is not
>> responding" dialog, but I know that I see the greyed window on Ubuntu far
>> more than that dialog on Windows. And in my experience, the Windows dialog
>> actually appears when that program is hanging, not because another program
>> is busy.
>>
>
> I have noticed this "grey screening" a lot too, and it really gets on my
> nerves; I have four processing cores, each capable of multi-threading -- no
> matter what I'm doing on my computer, I expect the user interface to be
> completely responsive. I know this is not a trivial task, but Windows 7 is
> currently doing a much better job of this.
>

Something does seem to be going on in Maverick right now, it has started
happening a lot more often on my meager machine. It would be good if we had
some way of figuring out exactly what is going on.

- David