On Friday 20 Mar 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Arun Khan wrote: > > Details of my setup are as below:
> > I have been using Kontact for the past many years as it provides > > integrated mail, address, appt./calendar, etc ... > > > > When I invoke Kontact, top shows kontact and korgac taking up > 90% > > CPU usage on both cores! The application display goes blank and it > > returns after about a minute. Likewise, when I make any change to > > any address book entry the same deal. > > Please try the following: > > 1. disable "desktop" effects > 2. disable "minimize" effect > 3. In the "Module" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf, comment out > the line > # Load "dri" > desktop effect is disabled - will try comment the "dri" line although I don't think this is the problem - see below. The xfce panels and the apps in other workspaces display fine - no issues. *only* the kontact window goes all white for about 60 secs (I guess until korgac is done with whatever it is doing). > Restart X. > > can you please report the CPU utilization percentage for > 'kwin' and 'Xorg' ? I am running the xfce desktop. xfce-panel 1% X varies from 1% to 5% > Additionally, can you please let me know which GPU you have got > on your box ? GPU is GeForce 7300 SE with the Xorg driver (i.e. not NVidia's closed prop. driver). Thanks, Arun Khan
