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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:56:27
Message-Id: 7573e9640610291051v314a1debp6b9e6f175075a9ab@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness) by "Tomáš Bartoň"
1 On 10/29/06, Tomá¹ Bartoò <tommz9@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Sunday 29 October 2006 13:36, Marco Calviani wrote:
3 > > Hi list,
4 > > the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running
5 > > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. After having enabled it
6 > > xorg started running with AIGLX (using compiz or beryl).
7 > > Although the system is quite usable there is still an issue: i thought
8 > > the system would have relied completely on video card acceleration.
9 > > However whenever i run an AIGLX effect such as the cube or just window
10 > > moving the CPU goes up to 80-90% during all the time the effect is
11 > > running. This behaviour makes the system A LOT less responsive than it
12 > > is without AIGLX.
13 > > Is this a known issue?
14 > >
15 > > Thanks a lot,
16 > > MC
17 >
18 > I tkink its normal. I run beryl with NVidia driver and when I move a window or
19 > something the CPU goes up to 100% ...
20
21 Hmm, I also have an nvidia GPU, and my system doesn't exhibit this
22 behavior. Of course, I get the black-windows bug due to a memory leak
23 in the drivers, but certainly no excessive CPU usage for any of the
24 beryl effects.
25
26 -Richard
27
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