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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:26:16
Message-Id: Pine.BSO.4.58.0511071603120.25514@ida.bway.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64) by Greg Bur
1 On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:
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3 > My apologies for not making this more clear. The system load spike begins
4 > with the click and it hovers at or near 100% until the new task (opening a
5 > program, displaying a menu, etc) has completed. Even moving a window causes
6 > this to happen and the load only jumps on one processor, the other is idle
7 > or nearly so. When the nvidia driver is working correctly (assuming the
8 > driver is to blame) the load seems to be balanced evenly across both
9 > processors.
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11 What are the specs of the machine? How much RAM when running X? ("free -t
12 -o -m" in an xterm will tell you). How much free disk space? Dual
13 processor machine? If so, SMP is enabled in your kernel? Is X using
14 software rendering?
15
16 Many variables here.
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