Description of problem: running F18 with gnome. After a day of use, things slow down dramatically. Just switching workspaces can take 1 or 2 minutes (whereas it is instantaneous after a clean boot). This can be resolved by doing Alt-F2 + r, but that operation itself takes up to 5 minutes before the shell is restarted. Once the shell is restarted this way, things are fast again for about 1 day. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: every time. This occurs on 2 desktops and 1 laptop that I use. Fedora 17 never had this issue. Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot Fedora 2. use gnome for about a day 3. Actual results: operations involving switching workspaces are very slow. Expected results: should not be slow Additional info:
Yes, I see this too. For me, it seems to be connected with using and freeing looots of memory, after running vms, building images etc. Very annoying. Also: it seems just to stop screen switching via keyboard shortcuts. When selecting running firefox on another screen via Windows and search firefox it works nearly instantly.
I was pointed to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735599#c29 which might be related. (Outdated mozjs)
Experiencing the same. As a workaround I do "gnome-shell --replace &" every other day. That messes up the window positioning a bit but brings things back to speed.
Same here after upgrade to f18. Alt+F2 and 'r' reverts speed back to normal but messes up my windows.
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still present in f19 although the slowdown takes longer.
I see a log of bug reports with similar symptoms; trying to isolate the cause and identify duplicates... Do you see high CPU usage? High memory usage? Do you use Google Chrome? Do you use the Gnome Weather extension?
Perhaps a related issue (already fixed): bug 1027192
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These days the very same is happening on RHEL8. No matter how much RAM is free, no matter how low the load is, after a while changing workspace determines the efficiency of work.