File a bug against what?

[José Matos]

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 20:03:52 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 19:50:09 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> >
> > Maybe you could describe what the problem is. Maybe including the
> > hardware embedded in the laptop (ie video card, cpu type, memory etc.)
>
> Basically, I had been seeing increasing slowdowns of many functions,
> including long pauses before kmail could send a message out (and during
> which no other activity was possible).  These could last anything up to
> around 15 seconds. It had proved impossible to find a pattern to the
> behaviour.  I could have been suffering from this for hours, then suddenly
> one or two messages would depart promptly.
>
> All this was on the Acer Aspire One, which has an Intel Mobile 945GME
> Express graphics unit.  I had desktop effects enabled, but was only using
> 'dim inactive windows'.  Two days ago I decided to try changing the
> compositing type from OpenGL to XRender.  The improvement was immediate and
> obvious.  It isn't perfect, but it's a great deal better.
>
> I know that information is being gathered about various display card
> problems. I want to add this one to the collection, and to point out the
> workaround. FWIW, at least one other user that I have talked to has had a
> similar result though the details differ.  He will add his information to
> my report.

I only see pauses when using kmail. Sometimes it pause for no obvious reasons 
(no disc activity FWIW).

> Anne

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José Abílio