Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Update: I think I just found the problem! I decided to give the open source ATI drivers a try again, and replaced 'fglrx' by 'radeon' in my xorg.conf. And all is fast now. Wow. I had already forgotten how fast a desktop should be. I'm not yet sure all is fine. On the first start, kwin

[gentoo-performance] Goodbye

2010-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! YFYI, this list is about to be closed. That's a pity, I'd like to have such a list, but it is also true that there was nearly no traffic at all - I count 24 posts this year, all in the same thread except for another accidental posting. Maybe it was just that too few people knew about

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: On Thursday 26 August 2010 02:11:44 Alex Schuster wrote: I think I just found the problem! I decided to give the open source ATI drivers a try again, and replaced 'fglrx' by 'radeon' in my xorg.conf. And all is fast now. Wow. I had already forgotten how fast

Re: [gentoo-performance] Goodbye

2010-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: I actually didn't find out about this list untill I was looking for a different list on the Gentoo site. Most of the activity is on the gentoo-user list, but that tends to get too busy at times. Also from me, goodbye to this list, it was nice while it lasted :) At

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-26 Thread Alex Schuster
Joost Roeleveld writes: On Wednesday 25 August 2010 21:38:10 Alex Schuster wrote: And I just moved my PORTAGE_TMPDIR to an unencrypted partition. Can LVM create noticeable overhead? I also resized my logical volumes a couple of times, could this lead to some LVM fragmentation

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Mansour Moufid writes: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Just a thought: why -ggdb in your CFLAGS? If you have =gcc-4.2, try: CFLAGS=-march=native -O2 -pipe I just added this some days ago in order to give debug information for a a bug in strigi I

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Kacper KopczyƄski writes: Checkout configuration of your video driver - X should not take more than 5% of cpu when iddle (with some minor effects). Perhaps kde is not using OpenGL? Do you have OpenGL enabled? I'm using ati-drivers-10.7 with xorg-server-1.7.7-r1. No special settings in

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
J. Roeleveld writes: On Wednesday 25 August 2010 03:32:40 Alex Schuster wrote: I have an AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e CPU, on-board Radeon HD 3200 graphics, 4GB of memory, an 1.5 TB drive. Lots of LVM volumes, all encrypted, except for /usr/src and portage stuff. The system

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Mansour Moufid writes: But actually it sounds like you don't have direct rendering? Check with glxinfo (from x11-apps/mesa-progs): $ glxinfo | grep -i direct Thanks, but opengl is running fine. Well, it took me quite a while until I got it working, but finally there was a version of

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-25 Thread Alex Schuster
I think I just found the problem! I decided to give the open source ATI drivers a try again, and replaced 'fglrx' by 'radeon' in my xorg.conf. And all is fast now. Wow. I had already forgotten how fast a desktop should be. I'm not yet sure all is fine. On the first start, kwin crashed and all

[gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Me again. I wrote here about my problems with mplayer stuttering during emerges. Then I wrote that the problem went away when I installed Gentoo again, moving from i686 to x86_64. But the problems are back, and worse than ever. This is driving me crazy. CRAZY! I have an AMD Athlon(tm) Dual

[gentoo-performance] Re: Bad desktop performance, I think

2010-06-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Oh, well. It's been quite a while. I wanted to reply earlier, but then kmail crashed and I lost the mail. ThenI was quite busy with other things, and so on. Mansour Moufid wrote: Hello all, On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:07 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: I am a little

Bad desktop performance, I think (was: Re: [gentoo-performance] Hello? Thump-thump?)

2010-01-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Nicholas J. Michalek writes: Roll-call thread! I'm here! Cool. Hi Nicholas! Hi Fritze! Indeed, this list has tended to have periods of dormancy... like me, we probably all forgot about it until this recent resurrection. My post took awhile until it showed up, so had already filed a bug

[gentoo-performance] Hello? Thump-thump?

2010-01-19 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! Well... is there anybody out there? According to http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.performance , the last post is half a year ago. Does this mean performance is already okay for everyone? Or does no one bother to post here, because the audience seems to be low, and uses the