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[Anzan Hoshin Roshi <anzanhoshinroshi@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 July 2010 11:37, David Nielsen <gnomeuser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 2010/7/21 Scott E. Armitage <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:39 AM, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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.
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How about starting just Firefox from the terminal so you can track what it
does?


Anzan