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Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos |
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Chantziaras did opine thusly: |
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> > About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did |
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> > feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I |
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> > put it down to running a huge compile in screen. I do feel the |
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> > incremental improvements in KDE since about 4.3, mostly because new |
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> > versions come out rapidly. |
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> > What do you perceive with BFS vs mainline/gentoo/whatever? |
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> Less stalls in animations. A classic example is mplayer stalling when I |
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> move the mouse over the clock to the right of the system tray in KDE. |
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> KDE will fade-in a pop-up that contains details about the current date. |
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> For the duration of the fade-in, mplayer will stop playing frames. |
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> This is a "stall." It seems that the compositor of KDE gets way more |
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> CPU than it should resulting in mplayer starving for CPU. With BFS, |
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> this does not happen. |
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I'm running 2.6.36-ck-r2 and mplayer is smooth as a baby's backside - KDE |
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animations have no effect on that. The two things that do slow my desktop down |
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are when nepomuk decides to do it's thing (and I still haven't found a way to |
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tweak how aggresively it does that) and when kontact can't find the imap |
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server on Exchange. |
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It's been so long since I used a vanilla or gentoo kernel I honestly can't |
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recall what it was like. And testing it means a reboot. Hopefully when I next |
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reboot I'll remember what to compare against. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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