From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 15 19:15:40 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 9BE9516A408 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55FB43D55 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:15:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k3FJELd8051497; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:14:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <44414602.9040606@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:14:10 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Duane Whitty References: <8dc358df0604151014x1fb2a25dye538797bc4adeea@mail.gmail.com> <44413651.8010504@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <44413651.8010504@greenmeadow.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Paulino Calderon Subject: Re: Improving kde perfomance... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:15:40 -0000 Paulino Calderon 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. >> >> Thanks for your help. > Are you quite certain that KDE is to blame? If you run flux on this laptop, is everything "normal"? Seems a jump in logic to assume it's KDE if that's all you've ever run on a brand spanking new machine; but, you weren't specific about this. Try another WM and see if the problem evaporate; that should at least give you a starting point to know what to look for..... Kevin Kinsey -- One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.