Fedora slow keys and stuttering response [LWN.net]

Fedora slow keys and stuttering response

Posted May 15, 2008 14:50 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648)
In reply to: Fedora 9 released by proski
Parent article: Fedora 9 released

Just curious, do recent versions of Fedora still have that dreaded "stuttering" response? I'm referring to latency issues with mouse pointer movement, keystroke response, and page scrolling most visible when running Firefox, noticeable back in the FC2/FC3 days. A Fedora user at my local LUG said it was due to a near-constant stream of memory page faults.

I've never noticed such latency issues in any distro other than Red Hat and Fedora...

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Fedora slow keys and stuttering response

Posted May 15, 2008 15:00 UTC (Thu) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Firefox can be unresponsive sometimes, but other applications running at the same time don't seem to be affected.

Fedora slow keys and stuttering response

Posted May 22, 2008 11:02 UTC (Thu) by HugoA (guest, #52201) [Link]

Also, you can try to disable smooth scrolling in firefox (in options under advanced ->
general). Ironically, disabling it makes scrolling a lot smoother for me.

FC2/3 was a long time ago, and I've never seen this stuttering (been with fedora since FC6).