Performance degradation after KDE runs for sometime

[Martin Kho]

On Tuesday 16 November 2010 13:50:48 Armelius Cameron wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:09:01 am Richard Heck wrote:
> > On 11/16/2010 09:59 AM, Christos Lazaridis wrote:
> > But I can confirm the workaround: Enabling and then disabling desktop
> > effects fixes the problem.
> 
> Just curious and to make things clearer: are both of you (Richard and
> Christos) also using NVidia proprietary driver ?

Hi,

FYI: I'm using the nouveau driver - desktop effects (XRENDER) enabled - and 
haven't seen any of the mentioned issues. Can it be that it's the proprietary 
driver which is making trouble? If so, ask on the NVIDIA mailing list [1] if 
others have the same issues.

Btw. Have you tried the vesa driver. It gives you a rather bad experience 
(:-)) but at least you can test desktop effects (also XRENDER).

Martin Kho

[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=14

> 
> > Do we need a new thread to call this to the right people's attention? Or
> > should a bug be filed somewhere?
> 
> I don't know... we can try a new thread. This thread seemed to get a bit
> side- tracked earlier.
> I am not sure how / what bug report to file this againsts yet, as I don't
> have a reliable way to reproduce, and my evidences are mainly anectdotal
> (hence i wonder if anyone else experience it). But if you do file it please
> let us know and we can contribute reports.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to try the workaround. For some reason my system
> seems to be doing okay since I came in earlier today. I'll try the turning
> off -- turning on desktop effect when it gets worse.
> 
> Thanks
> AC
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