From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 11 14:40:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F551065689 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: from web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com [66.196.97.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D80A78FC08 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdh_lists@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 23232 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Oct 2008 14:40:02 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=PBOQ9qHXQcfGjQ495jh61IZ7W9diYp9EUuDAuv1PF0aADXEtL3GDOVBWGq8BMbhZOHN0IX++Aom8E3FqAk2Z/9k5FHAazqNPF9xb2+8C8DMqtgscbIuv55qSUseKIWX3uCP7f3tOqukZPtnf6GpuUNPzlWiS9Xvm5tTaubqH9e4=; X-YMail-OSG: 9.23PH4VM1mKXCzh1TD0PGep_2TTZutYTxaOih9aUQPzV3f2PZrEetAhAv3emxEZeK9SB4hRIIWvrE_mf4_QszEsIIouCBk9WXxl0EHh_s072nSW46hU2ORpylWF66w8fSFyMXunStfJk3AuUqX5tfr0d0mXd0LDvOrkxXauq0PPrwelbZP6ML.weRJphA-- Received: from [71.61.220.126] by web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:40:01 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.218.2 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:40:01 -0700 (PDT) From: mdh To: Brian , Michal Kulczewski In-Reply-To: <48F04EBA.7010703@man.poznan.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <166708.22574.qm@web56807.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd7 & kde4 & performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mdh_lists@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:40:03 -0000 --- On Sat, 10/11/08, Michal Kulczewski wrote: > > freebsdemail@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hi Michael, > >> > >> Unfortunetly I've been having the same > difficulty with KDE4. I've > >> tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia. > >> > >> My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 > gs with 512 > >> dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory. > I've tried using 7.0, 7.1 > >> and 8.0(Current) with all malloc debugging > features disabled as well > >> as kernel debugging options turned off. I've > also tried switching back > >> to UFS filesystems from ZFS(root install) to no > avail. > >> > >> In the end I ended up using kde3 due to endless > headaches. I felt I'd > >> share this in hopes someone has managed to get it > to run reasonably well. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Tom > well, there is no much information available though. IMHO > it's a pity > that once fancy gui is available, freebsd users can not > make use of it. > I have to switch to gnome (somehow I don't like kde3). > > Cheers, > Michal Michal, can you describe in more detail just what is performing poorly? Things like what effects, what actions you're taking, what your settings are that effect those actions, etc? I'm running KDE4.1.1 from ports on 7-STABLE and have no performance problems at all with an AthlonX2, 2gigs of memory, and a GeForce6200 card using nvidia binary drivers. One thing I have come up against was the nvidia "black windows bug" with OpenGL effects turned on, but turning them off doesn't signifigantly hinder my enjoyment of KDE4, or make it too much less sexy to be honest. The performance was also fine even with them turned on; it simply caused that bug to occur which made it less usable. Generally speaking, I've found GNOME to run with more performance issues despite less bells and whistles than KDE every time on any system where I've tried it. If you provide some more information, maybe I can direct you to some setting tweaks, etc, but as I said it's working just lovely for me (and this is with a ton of apps open, by the way - several seamonkey windows, a bunch of kpdf, eclipse, many many konsole tabs, xmms, ktorrent, and more. One thing I am curious of is if you're running i386 FreeBSD, or another architecture (amd64, ia64, etc?) Take care. - mdh