Running KDE 4.6.x on Fedora 15. All of a sudden everything having to do
with the desktop is super slow. The plasmoids keep freezing up.
clicking on the launcher takes forever for something to actually appear.
If I reboot, KDE desktop is just black for a while. But it's not my
computer locking up because any programs I have running aren't slow. <br>
<br>
Nothing's really using up a lot of CPU. I only have two guesses. <br>
<br>
1) somethings's up with my 3D graphics drivers - although I haven't done
any package updates relating to the kernel or nvidia drivers<br>
<br>
I know glxgears isn't the best, most accurate way to test, but I get<br>
<br>
<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Code:</div>
<pre class="bbcodeblock" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px;
margin-right: -99999px;
padding: 3px;
border: 1px inset;
width: 98%;
height: 50px;
text-align: left;
overflow: auto">18143 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3628.446 FPS
20105 frames in 5.0 seconds = 4020.875 FPS</pre>
</div>glxinfo yields:<br>
<br>
<br>
<div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px">
<div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Code:</div>
<pre class="bbcodeblock" dir="ltr" style="margin: 0px;
margin-right: -99999px;
padding: 3px;
border: 1px inset;
width: 98%;
height: 498px;
text-align: left;
overflow: auto">name of display: :0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
server glx extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_EXT_swap_control, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_create_context,
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile,
GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx version string: 1.4
client glx extensions:
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address, GLX_ARB_multisample, GLX_EXT_visual_info,
GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_EXT_import_context, GLX_SGI_video_sync,
GLX_NV_swap_group, GLX_NV_video_out, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig, GLX_SGIX_pbuffer,
GLX_SGI_swap_control, GLX_EXT_swap_control, GLX_ARB_create_context,
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_NV_float_buffer,
GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_EXT_fbconfig_packed_float,
GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_NV_present_video, GLX_NV_copy_image, GLX_NV_multisample_coverage,
GLX_NV_video_capture, GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile,
GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness
GLX version: 1.4
GLX extensions:
GLX_EXT_visual_info, GLX_EXT_visual_rating, GLX_SGIX_fbconfig,
GLX_SGIX_pbuffer, GLX_SGI_video_sync, GLX_SGI_swap_control,
GLX_EXT_swap_control, GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap, GLX_ARB_create_context,
GLX_ARB_create_context_profile, GLX_EXT_create_context_es2_profile,
GLX_ARB_create_context_robustness, GLX_ARB_multisample,
GLX_NV_float_buffer, GLX_ARB_fbconfig_float, GLX_EXT_framebuffer_sRGB,
GLX_ARB_get_proc_address
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9500 GT/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 280.13
OpenGL shading language version string: 3.30 NVIDIA via Cg compiler</pre>
</div>it goes on and on, but I figured that was all that was important.<br>
<br>
Disabling desktop effects did not fix the situation. Not sure if that rules out graphics driver issues.<br><br>Not sure if this proves that things are OK with the graphics or not, but
Gnome 3 seems to run just fine. No slowness. Xfce seems to work just
fine even with compositing turned on. The only issue appears to be with
KDE<br>
<br>
2) I did update some small amount of packages fftw or something and a
couple others - seemed like no big deal. <br><br>here's what I updated today:<br>
<br>
Oct 20 18:54:26 Updated: imsettings-libs-1.2.5-3.fc15.x86_64<br>
Oct 20 18:54:27 Updated: imsettings-gnome-1.2.5-3.fc15.x86_64<br>
Oct 20 18:54:29 Updated: imsettings-1.2.5-3.fc15.x86_64<br>
Oct 20 18:54:30 Updated: imsettings-xfce-1.2.5-3.fc15.x86_64<br>
Oct 20 18:54:31 Updated: fftw-libs-3.3-3.fc15.x86_64<br>
Oct 20 18:54:32 Updated: ibus-rawcode-1.3.1.20100707-5.fc15.x86_64<br>
Oct 20 18:54:46 Updated: 1:java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-60.1.10.4.fc15.x86_64<br>
Oct 20 18:54:49 Updated: perl-DateTime-TimeZone-1.40-1.fc15.noarch<br><br><br>I feel like KDE is getting stuck on something perhaps - waiting for
something to happen that's not happening. Or maybe something SELinux
related? If it helps with the debugging - I have the <a href="http://last.fm">last.fm</a> plasmoid. It has a counter on it until
the next update and I'll notice that it'll get stuck on a number for a
while and then start counting again before gettting stuck again<br><br clear="all">--<br>Eric Mesa<br><a href="http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com">http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com</a><br>