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 output of free it looks like despite having 2Gb of RAM,
your machine is swapping to disk. That will slow down your machine too.
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.
