Re: KWin (KDE4 from rawhide) using way too much CPU

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



--- 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
> 
> -- 



      

-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

[Index of Archives]     [Current Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux