On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote: > It definitely is not an issue with swapping to disk. For some reason X is > causing a high CPU load and it acts like its only using one processor. If I > switch back to the open source driver the load seems to be balanced across > all "4" processors. To make things even more interesting if I open glxgears > while using the Nvidia driver the problem can be temporarily alleviated. The > CPU load drops back to normal and the system is much more responsive. The > open source driver is working fine for now but I sure would like to know > what it is that I'm doing to cause the Nvidia driver to perform so poorly.
Maybe the Nvidia drivers dont play well with threading and/or SMP? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
