From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 15 17:48:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D62E16A402 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:48:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from mail.stovebolt.com (mail.stovebolt.com [66.221.101.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A396D43D46 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:48:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.101] (adsl-66-138-73-225.dsl.rcsntx.swbell.net [66.138.73.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.stovebolt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92682114307 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:42:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:47:37 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1801B6D2817BA7FA47D274F4@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> In-Reply-To: <8dc358df0604151014x1fb2a25dye538797bc4adeea@mail.gmail.com> References: <8dc358df0604151014x1fb2a25dye538797bc4adeea@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.0 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========233A462C8F48D2A4E4BE==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Improving kde perfomance... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Schmehl List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:48:52 -0000 --==========233A462C8F48D2A4E4BE========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On April 15, 2006 5:14:14 PM +0000 Paulino Calderon=20 wrote: > Hey folks, Ive been googling about howto improve kde perfomance, i ve > always used fluxbox as my wm but recently I got a new laptop, it has a > 3.2 ghz processor, 1 gb of ram, and an ati mobility radeon x600 wiith 256 > mb of video meomry so I decided to try kde but so far the perfomance has > benn really poor, cpu usage is always between 20-25% eventhough im not > doing anything, most apps takes between 5 and 10 seconds to start, and > even the mouse pointer feels like it gets stuck when i move it too fast, > is this as fast as it gets for kde? or do you guys think there is > osmething wrong with my installation? I instaleld it via ports by the = way. > Strange. My install is quite peppy. 99 processes: 2 running, 96 sleeping, 1 stopped CPU states: 99.6% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0%=20 idle Mem: 322M Active, 479M Inact, 131M Wired, 39M Cache, 111M Buf, 25M Free Swap: 500M Total, 55M Used, 444M Free, 11% Inuse FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #1: Sat Apr 1 21:39:10 CST 2006 root@hostname.utdallas.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz (3591.11-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0xf41 Stepping =3D 1 =20 Features=3D0xbfebfbff Features2=3D0x451d> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory =3D 1072193536 (1022 MB) Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer University of Texas at Dallas AVIEN Founding Member http://www.utdallas.edu/ --==========233A462C8F48D2A4E4BE==========--