KDE (xorg) low performance

mamunata · Apprentice Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 169

Hi guys,

My system is Athlon64 2800+, 512MB RAM, Sapphire Radeon 9600, 80GB SATA Seagate, but the performance of the system is really bad (mostly the graphic subsystem). I know that ATI 64bit drivers are only a dream for now but for example when I add COMPOSE extension and KDE with transperancy the subsystem is almost not usable. But even without these extras when I drag window it "cut in pieces"

glxgears makes 400-800 frames but the cpu is 100% load

i looked at the logs but couldn't see something wrong

any ideas

P.S.
Linux version 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 (root@livecd) (gcc version 3.3.4 20040623 (Gentoo
Linux 3.3.4-r1, ssp-3.3.2-2, pie-8.7.6))
kde3.3.0, gentoo 2004.2 ....

ebrostig · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:01 pm Post subject:

Remember that composite and transparancy is still on an early testing stage and don't expect good performance.

I've tried it and dropped, just beacuse of the performance. Without it, everything is snappy.

It' s up to you if you (at the moment) want all the eyecandy or a snappy system.

Erik
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mamunata · Apprentice Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 169

nighty · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject:

unfortunately not much you can do regarding to the drivers. in the meanwhile you should try prelinking if you havent, it helps kde loading times.

Boris27 · Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2004 9:53 pm Post subject:

I run a 2500+ with a 9800pro.

I reinstalled last saturday or so, and made my system with NPTL, GCC-3.4 and X.Org-6.8.0, with the radeon driver.

Graphics were mighty slow. I unmerged Xorg, and put XFree on there, with the fglrx drivers, and now graphics are an order of magnitude faster.

I'd really like to run X.org, as its a bit better implementation, but unless ATi or Xorg get their act on radeons together, I'll be using XFree.
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mamunata · Apprentice Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 169

i prelinked the system but there is no difference with performance

i don't think that the reason is ati driver (or xorg driver) because the low performance of applications like "konqueror", for example, is provocated from something else

kde applications start really slow with high hdd loading