I did a bit of digging and found this thread on Nvidia's forums: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=6d2356bfbad61b24cdc14c1417a2cb0f&t=154563
One poster In particular ran gtkperf which was showing extremely slow performance in font related tests. The poster later claims that "It appears to be related to anti-aliasing; if I turn off anti-aliasing the performance problem is gone". I am unable to test this as I am not at my system with the Nvidia card. -- Slow performance and high CPU usage on Maverick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/617994 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

