On Saturday 06 November 2010, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> This is getting weird. I haven't rebooted in a few weeks now. I tried
> to watch a video a bit ago and it was slow again. It was down to about
> 2 or 3 frames per second. It is awful. If I go tell it to switch to
> opengl, it gets fast again but after a while it will go back to being
> really slow. Why do I have to keep telling it to use nvidia's opengl
> when it says it is using it and I have switched to a few times? If it
> is using it, why does it slow down until I tell it to switch?
>
> I did do a huge KDE upgrade the other day. I don't recall seeing
> anything else X related being updated but I could have missed something
> in that LONG list. I did do a baselayout upgrade and portage itself has
> been upgraded a few times.
>
> Any ideas on why this thing keeps doing this? Would a reboot even help
> in this situation?
When it gets very slow start up top and see what's using the CPU. My bet is
the Xserver. I have a GeForce 9400 GT 512MB and the xserver will happily use
90% while nothing much is happening. Start a KDE4 app which constantly updates
(ktorrent, kps are good 3rd party examples) and the xserver goes crazy.
HTH
-Robin
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Robin Atwood.
"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst"
from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling
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