Slow X due to gkrellm
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From: baron on 21 Jul 2010 10:59 houghi Inscribed thus: > mjt wrote: >> I'm running with almost all the eye-candy on KDE and >> I have zero X issues. Rotating the virtual desktop cube >> is just as fast. Cover Switch is just as quick with about >> 10 app windows running. Am able to switch to tty1-6 >> no problem. gkrellm is running about 1.5% CPU. >> >> Have you run top to see if someone is stealing cpu? > > I was sure I gave the info, but due to changing desktops a few times, > I re-started writing the article and it must dropped somewhere. > > I checked with top and it was Xorg that went to 100% not gtkrellm. > I found out that it was gkrellm by closing everything and then opening > all the programs one by one again that were running by default. > > What happens is that the screen, mouse and keyboard hang in X. Sound > is not affected. In tty1 the keyboard is not affected, so it is as if > only the showing of the screen is affected somehow. > > houghi I run Gkrellm as well and don't have any X issues with it. "OpenSuse.11.1" Athlon 1500, 1Gb ram Sis660 VGA set @ 16Mb. Only complaint is that the screensaver takes the CPU to 99%. -- Best Regards: Baron.
From: mjt on 21 Jul 2010 12:28 On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:44:39 +0200 houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: > mjt wrote: > > Stefan Dirsch 2010-07-21 11:54:42 UTC > > Unfortunately we can't track any NVIDIA driver bugs filed > > against openSUSE in Novell's bugzilla. Please complain > > directly to NVIDIA. Thanks. > > Guessed someting like that. I will wait what they say. They already said it to you :) What I posted previously - THAT IS the reply to your bug report. Bug 624235 - gkrellm makes the GUI sluggish with official NVidea driver .... Status = RESOLVED Resolution = INVALID .... Stefan Dirsch 2010-07-21 11:54:42 UTC Unfortunately we can't track any NVIDIA driver bugs filed against openSUSE in Novell's bugzilla. Please complain directly to NVIDIA. Thanks. -- Show me a man who is a good loser and I'll show you a man who is playing golf with his boss. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: Vahis on 21 Jul 2010 14:44 On 2010-07-21, Vahis <waxborg(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > On 2010-07-20, houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: >> I have noticed that when I am running `gkrellm` I have an extremely >> sluggish X. Would anybody be so nice and try it out if the same happens? >> > > Host 11.2 and guest in VBox 11.3: > > If gkrellm runs in host, guest is sluggish, host is good. > If grellm runs in guest it becomes sluggish, host is good Another combo: Host 11.2 KDE (as before), but now guest 11.3 LXDE. Both running gkrellm, no sluggishness or jerkiness in either. Vahis -- http://waxborg.servepics.com openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) 2.6.34-12-desktop 21:41pm up 7 days 7:28, 3 users, load average: 0.61, 0.30, 0.23
From: mjt on 21 Jul 2010 14:47 On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:44:27 GMT Vahis <waxborg(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > On 2010-07-21, Vahis <waxborg(a)gmail.com.invalid> wrote: > > On 2010-07-20, houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: > >> I have noticed that when I am running `gkrellm` I have an extremely > >> sluggish X. Would anybody be so nice and try it out if the same > >> happens? > > > > Host 11.2 and guest in VBox 11.3: > > > > If gkrellm runs in host, guest is sluggish, host is good. > > If grellm runs in guest it becomes sluggish, host is good > > Another combo: Host 11.2 KDE (as before), but now guest 11.3 LXDE. > > Both running gkrellm, no sluggishness or jerkiness in either. Maybe it's an XFCE thing - I believe houghi mentioned using XFCE. -- Pohl's law: Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it. <<< Remove YOURSHOES to email me >>>
From: Vahis on 21 Jul 2010 15:27
On 2010-07-21, houghi <houghi(a)houghi.org.invalid> wrote: > mjt wrote: >> Maybe it's an XFCE thing - I believe houghi mentioned using XFCE. > > I also mentioned that I killed a puppie and a kitten and the same > problem happend there. > Did you try LXDE? It seems to work well here. Vahis -- http://waxborg.servepics.com openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) 2.6.34-12-desktop 22:26pm up 7 days 8:13, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.33, 0.38 |