Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-26 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday 25 August 2010 21:38:10 Alex Schuster wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-26 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 26 August 2010 01:06:59 Alex Schuster wrote: J. Roeleveld writes: Can you post the result of: ps axu? This will give an indication which processes are running and using a lot of memory. The fifth colums gives the memory, right? Should this add up to the total of the 'used'

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-26 Thread Joost Roeleveld
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 a desktop should be. I'm not yet

Re: [gentoo-performance] Horrible performance

2010-08-26 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 26 August 2010 11:34:23 Alex Schuster wrote: Update: I first got no dri with xorg-server 1.8, too, and then weird effects started happening, like the shift and ctrl keys not working. When tings crashed, I got a block screen and still could move the mouse, but that was all, even