On Thursday 08 January 2004 11:41 am, Travis Crook wrote: > Hi All, > I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE as my desktop environment. I have a > fairly fast box (Athlon XP 1500+, 512MB RAM, GeForce3 Ti200). X seems > to be a little on the slow side. If I'm browsing the Web in whatever > browser my mouse is really unresponsive until the page has finished > loading. Waiting for Evolution to check my mail slows the mouse down in > the same manner. Is there any way to improve the overall speed of X or > is this "just the way it is"? > Which driver are you using. nv or nvidia (not that it matters that much for 2d stuff)
I notice when there are things going on that use a lot of cpu, X stutters a bit. This may be more related to the kernel scheduler than X. It may be better or fixed in a low-latency kernel or the new 2.6 kernel which has a re-written scheduler. -- /g
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