Am Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:01:34 +0200 schrieb Michael Jansen <k...@michael-jansen.biz>:
> The failsafe session btw did not disable compositing (for me). I understand > failsafe session as selecting fail-safe from the boot menu btw . Just > in case. $ less /usr/bin/startkde #!/bin/sh # # DEFAULT KDE STARTUP SCRIPT ( 4.7.00 (4.7.0) ) # if test "x$1" = x--failsafe; then KDE_FAILSAFE=1 # General failsafe flag KWIN_COMPOSE=N # Disable KWin's compositing export KWIN_COMPOSE KDE_FAILSAFE fi [...] yesno? > xrestop did not show anything useful. I was able to start it through > the Autostart feature and "konsole -e xrestop". _nothing_ peaking in "Pxm mem" or "Other" but high RAM usage? - that should be a server (/driver) bug then... > > I could find out nothing about what it is that piles up in x11. I > tried to valgrind x11 but i totally failed doing that. X11 startet > but when i tried to put a kde session into the x server nothing > happened. Someone experience doing that? I guess you got to wait ;-) Try to figure whether a specific client (ie. kwin or any Q/KApplication) triggers this and run only that - not a full session. > > Also check the graphicssystem, "export QT_GRAPHICSSYSTEM raster" or > > "native", rather not "opengl" > > Will try that. So i understand compositing had no impact on this (the issue remained after disabling it) Cheers, Thomas