--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Vini Engel <vini@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When I enable Desktop Effects kwin and xorg take about 30%
> of the CPU
> each. kwin sometimes takes as much as 80%, this is slowing
> down my
> machine heaps. Although I could just disable the desktop
> effects and
> resolve the problem I would rather give feedback to any
> KDE/Fedora
> developers out there and assist with the resolution of this
> issue.
I have seen that happen many times, just that 80% is a decent number, I have seen 99-100% and to have back decent CPU, I have to logout and log back in, and sometimes reboot the machine to kill the processes that cause trouble.
>
> My machine is an "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @
> 2.50GHz" with 4GB
> of RAM and a "nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M
> GS" with 128MB.
That is a great machine, mine just had 768MB of ram, and the cpu went up to the highest levels. GKrellm and top confirmed that for me.
>
> I am running Fedora 9 x64 with the most up-to-date packages
> available
> through yum and the latest KDE4 from rawhide. See below two
> snapshots of
> TOP while my machine was idling.
>
> 21026 vini 20 0 398m 45m 33m R 48.5 1.1
> 26:21.97 kwin
> 20346 root 20 0 253m 101m 8264 S 14.8 2.6
> 24:48.59 Xorg
> 32034 vini 20 0 633m 120m 30m S 8.4 3.0
> 11:23.43 firefox
> 21244 vini 20 0 393m 31m 19m S 2.4 0.8
> 2:21.66 ksysguard
>
> 21026 vini 20 0 396m 43m 31m S 30.6 1.1
> 26:36.48 kwin
> 20346 root 20 0 254m 101m 8264 R 26.0 2.6
> 24:57.45 Xorg
> 32034 vini 20 0 633m 120m 30m S 10.4 3.0
> 11:28.59 firefox
> 21063 vini 20 0 452m 34m 21m S 3.6 0.9
> 0:21.42 plasma
>
> I also would like to assist with testing KDE4 but I am
> unsure of where
> to report possible problems to. Can anyone point me in to
> the right
> direction?
1) bugzilla
2) subscribe to fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx and post your messages there.
Thank you for trying to help out.
Regards,
Antonio
>
> Thanks
> Vini
>
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