much of KDE freezes for 20 seconds (includes strace output)

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 14:49:15 Rex Dieter wrote:
> Clemens Eisserer wrote:
> > I also don't think its a graphic driver issue - usually many
> > self-made-professionals point to that, without any real indication.
> > If you use nv and the problem persists, it has nothing to do with the
> > proprietary nvidia driver, period.
>
> There's well-founded experience behind our seemingly crazy requests to
> reproduce bugs free of nvidia's taint (all files, libs, even nv's own
> libGL, etc...).  I once found it hard to believe too, until I witnessed it
> (pauses/freezes in particular).  NVidia's drivers are freaky beasts, and
> has caused countless episodes of wasted debugging.  More than a few times,
> folk *swore* to me that their systems were nvidia-driver free... and guess
> what, they weren't, and when purged completely, wierdness disappeared.
>
> I (we) really need to document this all on the wiki somewhere, so I don't
> need to re-write this rant every few weeks.
>
Why not write up a section on http://userbase.kde.org/Troubleshooting?

Anne
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