Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-15 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/11/05, Greg Bur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I tried without hyperthreading and without SMP and the results only got worse. Now I am beginning to look at how I compiled things such as glibc and xorg-x11. I already ran the undo process for prelink and now I think I shall recompile

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-10 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/8/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote: Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon 2GB RAM 128MB GeForce 6600GT Audigy 2 soundcard free -t -o -m output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free -t -o -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2009 1505 503 0 440 584 Swap: 1953 2 1950

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-10 Thread A. Khattri
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-10 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/10/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-10 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/10/05, Greg Bur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the Nvidia drivers dont play well with threading and/or SMP? That's my guess that this point. If I get the inspiration tonight I'll try disabling hyperthreading in the BIOS and also recompiling the kernel without SMP support. What has me

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-08 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote: Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon 2GB RAM 128MB GeForce 6600GT Audigy 2 soundcard free -t -o -m output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free -t -o -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2009 1505 503 0 440 584 Swap: 1953 2 1950 Total: 3962 1508 2454 According to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-07 Thread brullo nulla
However, after about 10 minutes the system load on one processor sharply increases to 100% when performing a simple task such as clicking on a button in Firefox, launching a new gnome-terminal window or clicking on the Applications menu at the top of the screen. I have not understood if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-07 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/7/05, brullo nulla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, after about 10 minutes the system load on one processor sharply increases to 100% when performing a simple task such as clicking on a button in Firefox, launching a new gnome-terminal window or clicking on the Applications menu at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-07 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/7/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote: My apologies for not making this more clear. The system load spike begins with the click and it hovers at or near 100% until the new task (opening a program, displaying a menu, etc) has completed. Even moving a