[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
Thanks Raphael, On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa kub...@gmail.comwrote: Hmm, you can always try to ask in the KDE forums, or even file a bug report to make sure it is not an upstream problem. This thread might be useful too: http://lists.kde.org/?t=12896568551r=1w=2 I had already gone through this link. I'll post to the KDE forum and see what they have to say. I posted here since I am using KDE on FreeBSD. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
Thanks Rusty 2010/11/12 Rusty Nejdl rne...@ringofsaturn.com Two things I found that helped for me in the NVIDIA world are: My VGA card is Intel. 1) Disable the BLUR effect. disabled, but still the same effects.. 2) Choose a different window decoration other than Oxygen. kicked out Oxygen window decorations a few posts up... The other random thing I found was that KNEMO is a CPU killer but that doesn't sound like what you are seeing. :-) yeah, not knemo for sure. anybody experiencing this or know how I can figure out what is going on... I am lost on this one :-/ -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
At Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:46:27 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: anybody experiencing this or know how I can figure out what is going on... I am lost on this one :-/ Hmm, you can always try to ask in the KDE forums, or even file a bug report to make sure it is not an upstream problem. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
At Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:27:23 -0200, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: At Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:46:27 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: anybody experiencing this or know how I can figure out what is going on... I am lost on this one :-/ Hmm, you can always try to ask in the KDE forums, or even file a bug report to make sure it is not an upstream problem. This thread might be useful too: http://lists.kde.org/?t=12896568551r=1w=2 ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
I found that a new version of the nvidia driver was released a few weeks back and am testing that out - 260.19.12. It seems to support additional GLX extensions so I am hoping it behaves better with KDE. My VGA card is an Intel Q45 SVGA controller. I opted to upgrade to KDE 4.5.3, but I still have the same problem. When I open Kontact, Kmail, Kaddressbook, Knode, Kmail, Xorg consumes 90%+ of the CPU and the remaining 9-10% is taken by the application. To add to it, since I have an extended desktop, my windows tend to take on an overlay of other windows: for example, If I have Firefox and Dolphin open, when I switch to firefox from Dolphin, then firefox has the contents of dolphin overlaying it. If I move the mouse around, I can see my web page, but it quickly gets overlay by the other open windows. Moving the window from one desktop and back sorts it out but just for a while... If I suspend compositing, all is well. I can work with all applications, including Kontact with no problem. Any pointers on this? -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:02:13 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: I found that a new version of the nvidia driver was released a few weeks back and am testing that out - 260.19.12. It seems to support additional GLX extensions so I am hoping it behaves better with KDE. My VGA card is an Intel Q45 SVGA controller. I opted to upgrade to KDE 4.5.3, but I still have the same problem. When I open Kontact, Kmail, Kaddressbook, Knode, Kmail, Xorg consumes 90%+ of the CPU and the remaining 9-10% is taken by the application. To add to it, since I have an extended desktop, my windows tend to take on an overlay of other windows: for example, If I have Firefox and Dolphin open, when I switch to firefox from Dolphin, then firefox has the contents of dolphin overlaying it. If I move the mouse around, I can see my web page, but it quickly gets overlay by the other open windows. Moving the window from one desktop and back sorts it out but just for a while... If I suspend compositing, all is well. I can work with all applications, including Kontact with no problem. Any pointers on this? -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. Mike, Two things I found that helped for me in the NVIDIA world are: 1) Disable the BLUR effect. 2) Choose a different window decoration other than Oxygen. The other random thing I found was that KNEMO is a CPU killer but that doesn't sound like what you are seeing. Sincerely, Rusty Nejdl ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Monday 01 November 2010 09:17:04 Mike Barnard wrote: Hi, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Mike Barnard mike.barna...@gmail.comwrote: as mentioned above, I think my PIM not working well is due to akonadi crashing... I'll pay more attention to it next time it acts up and check what is not running and what has dumped core. OK.. I had some time to take a look at this and try and figure out what was going on. Akonadi consumes almost all my 2GB of memory and eating about 36% of CPU when things get slowed down, Xorg is spiraling out of control, eating about 60% of CPU and some 1GB of memory. I only use KMail (without Kontact) and I've never seen akonadi use so much resources. It does look like akonadi is misbehaving, perhaps upstream can help with that. If I kill kontact, the 2GB memory is released and Xorg drops to about 16% of CPU, but still eats up about 1GB of memory. I updated my ports collection and updated all out-of-date ports and still the same behaviour. I notice that there have been a few patches, I am updating my ports collection again this morning and will get any ports out of date back up-to-date and check again. Recompiling everything may fix it. It is possible some dependency is not ABI forward compatible. PS: Akonadi is not crashing this time round, it just consumes lots of resources. Any one with ideas on what to check for, I'll get on it. You can also try cleaning out akonadi resources, such as: # rm -rf ~/.local/share/akonadi # rm -rf ~/.config/akonadi (make sure you back up, may eat your data) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:45 AM, David Naylor naylor.b.da...@gmail.comwrote: I only use KMail (without Kontact) and I've never seen akonadi use so much resources. It does look like akonadi is misbehaving, perhaps upstream can help with that. Yeah.. I'll wait for some upstream thoughts on this :-) Recompiling everything may fix it. It is possible some dependency is not ABI forward compatible. Hmmm... I had nothing break of complain of old dependencies or forward incompatibility when I finished my update. pkgdb would have complained about this, but it did not. You can also try cleaning out akonadi resources, such as: # rm -rf ~/.local/share/akonadi # rm -rf ~/.config/akonadi (make sure you back up, may eat your data) Not worried about backing up, I have all my mail and calender schedules backed up. Let me try that and restart akonadi and see if it gets any better. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:19:51 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:45 AM, David Naylor wrote: I only use KMail (without Kontact) and I've never seen akonadi use so much resources. It does look like akonadi is misbehaving, perhaps upstream can help with that. Yeah.. I'll wait for some upstream thoughts on this :-) Recompiling everything may fix it. It is possible some dependency is not ABI forward compatible. Hmmm... I had nothing break of complain of old dependencies or forward incompatibility when I finished my update. pkgdb would have complained about this, but it did not. You can also try cleaning out akonadi resources, such as: s=gmail_quote style=margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cc; padding-left: 1ex;(make sure you back up, may eat your data) e Not worried about backing up, I have all my mail and calender schedules backed up. Let me try that and restart akonadi and see if it gets any bet I found that a new version of the nvidia driver was released a few weeks back and am testing that out - 260.19.12. It seems to support additional GLX extensions so I am hoping it behaves better with KDE. Rusty Nejdl Links: -- [1] mailto:naylor.b.da...@gmail.com ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Saturday 23 October 2010 18:48:26 Adam Vande More wrote: 2010/10/23 David Naylor naylor.b.da...@gmail.com I sometimes have firefox freeze on me because nsviewer.bin crashes (aka flash). It does a core dump and firefox freezes until that finishes. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-September/008065. html Also in regards to linux flash freezes, using flashblock stops 95%(made up stats) of the freezing. Using this method with the regular player, not debug + flashblock gives me about as good of flash experience on FreeBSD as a Windows system. I mostly use Chromium, which I find is more stable (and doesn't freeze when flash goes down). I still need to use Firefox for some flash that Chromium doesn't handle. Thanks for the flashblock tip. It works like a charm. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-September/008103. html Interesting, I missed that email. Thanks signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa kub...@gmail.comwrote: At Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:15:41 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: I have tested with compositing disabled and there is some improvements. Although it does slow down after leaving it idle for a while. I have noticed that everything KDE goes to sleep. Kmail is slow on typing an email when all this happens, Kaddressbook takes its sweet time. By the way, do you experience this sluggishness with non-kdepim programs too? no... all the other programs are fine, with the exception of Firefox which tends to sleep at times... its unresponsive for about 15-20 seconds then comes back to life. I'll give it a more rigorous check and get back. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Rusty Nejdl rne...@ringofsaturn.comwrote: Are you using the flash plugin and nspluginwrapper by any chance? If so, try disabling it. I am still testing things but I was good for a few days and then reinstalled that and found my cpu leaked again. I have removed it and reinstalled gnash and my cpu is back to normal. I do have the linux-flash plugin installed and nspluginwrapper. I'll get it uninstalled and try out gnash. Although when KDE goes to sleep, my CPU is not chocking at all. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:27:51 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote: At Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:15:41 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: I have tested with compositing disabled and there is some improvements. Although it does slow down after leaving it idle for a while. I have noticed that everything KDE goes to sleep. Kmail is slow on typing an email when all this happens, Kaddressbook takes its sweet time. By the way, do you experience this sluggishness with non-kdepim programs too? no... all the other programs are fine, with the exception of Firefox which tends to sleep at times... its unresponsive for about 15-20 seconds then comes back to life. I'll give it a more rigorous check and get back. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. Ok, for that issue in Firefox, there's thread somewhere that suggests you change how often it saves the bookmarks as if you have many open, you will see freezes exactly like that. http://www.howinthetech.com/tweak-firefoxs-session-store-frequency/ [2] Try that suggestion to fix that issue with Firefox. Rusty Links: -- [1] mailto:kub...@gmail.com [2] http://www.howinthetech.com/tweak-firefoxs-session-store-frequency/ ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:30:48 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Rusty Nejdl wrote: Are you using the flash plugin and nspluginwrapper by any chance? If so, try disabling it. I am still testing things but I was good for a few days and then reinstalled that and found my cpu leaked again. I have removed it and reinstalled gnash and my cpu is back to normal. I do have the linux-flash plugin installed and nspluginwrapper. I'll get it uninstalled and try out gnash. Although when KDE goes to sleep, my CPU is not chocking at all. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. I'm extremely curious to see what you find here. This seems to be one of the big culprits for me. Rusty Links: -- [1] mailto:rne...@ringofsaturn.com ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Saturday 23 October 2010 09:30:48 Mike Barnard wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Rusty Nejdl rne...@ringofsaturn.comwrote: Are you using the flash plugin and nspluginwrapper by any chance? If so, try disabling it. I am still testing things but I was good for a few days and then reinstalled that and found my cpu leaked again. I have removed it and reinstalled gnash and my cpu is back to normal. I do have the linux-flash plugin installed and nspluginwrapper. I'll get it uninstalled and try out gnash. Although when KDE goes to sleep, my CPU is not chocking at all. I sometimes have firefox freeze on me because nsviewer.bin crashes (aka flash). It does a core dump and firefox freezes until that finishes. Do you have any .core files in your home directory? Also look at IO activity when firefox freezes next. With regards to PIM, I had KMail refusing to type sometimes, I found `akonadictl restart` or if akonadi isn't running `akonadictl start` fixes the problem. Regards, David signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
2010/10/23 David Naylor naylor.b.da...@gmail.com I sometimes have firefox freeze on me because nsviewer.bin crashes (aka flash). It does a core dump and firefox freezes until that finishes. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-September/008065.html Also in regards to linux flash freezes, using flashblock stops 95%(made up stats) of the freezing. Using this method with the regular player, not debug + flashblock gives me about as good of flash experience on FreeBSD as a Windows system. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-September/008103.html -- Adam Vande More ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa kub...@gmail.comwrote: At Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:02:46 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: I am running FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE built as of Oct 6 17:34:53 EAT 2010. Same day as when I did a portsnap and installed the packages needed to run KDE. I am experiencing frequent problems with kde4. It gets excruciatingly slow and desktop effects keep going down. I tailed .xsession-errors and tried to do what I was doing when it went down and got this: --- tail -f /usr/home/mike/.xsession-errors Actually, you should look for some KWin output for some information on what is going on with desktop effects. You can also try to configure it via System Settings and try to get some more info. And what graphics card and driver are you using? Does it help if you turn desktop effects off? Sorry for the silence, I had a pressing matter to handle at work :-)... I have tested with compositing disabled and there is some improvements. Although it does slow down after leaving it idle for a while. I have noticed that everything KDE goes to sleep. Kmail is slow on typing an email when all this happens, Kaddressbook takes its sweet time. I'll try disable all fancy features and give it a go. I use a Dell Optiplex 780. It has 4GB RAM, Graphics card is Intel Q45 SVGA controller. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
2010/10/20 Rusty Nejdl rne...@ringofsaturn.com I am open to any ideas on this topic as well. From what I can basically tell, I am having some sort of CPU leak with XORG. I can restart X (no need to reboot) and my KDE becomes responsive again. But XORG starts at around 3% cpu and just keeps creaping up until it will sit over 60%. It is currently 27% from a restart last night. I don't have kmix open. Disabling desktop effects doesn't appear to have an effect. Chrome vs firefox has no effect. Removing flash and replacing with gnash had no effect either. Thanks! Rusty Nejdl To reply to myself... I found a bunch of discussions of this affecting other distros besides FreeBSD. I was able to solve this by doing a combination of the following: 1) Stop using Oxygen windows decoration aha... I'll change from this and see though I love how oxygen decos look like :-) 2) Disable blur affecf disabled by default on mine. 3) Update /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Device0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth24 *Option AddARGBGLXVisuals True* SubSection Display Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection *Section Extensions* *Option Composite Enable* *EndSection* Ok... will try this too. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
*Option AddARGBGLXVisuals True* I have this option enabled under Section Device already and still experienced the slowness. I have moved it to Section Screen and will report performance. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
At Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:15:41 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: I have tested with compositing disabled and there is some improvements. Although it does slow down after leaving it idle for a while. I have noticed that everything KDE goes to sleep. Kmail is slow on typing an email when all this happens, Kaddressbook takes its sweet time. By the way, do you experience this sluggishness with non-kdepim programs too? ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:13:52 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: OPTION ADDARGBGLXVISUALS TRUE I have this option enabled under Section Device already and still experienced the slowness. I have moved it to Section Screen and will report performance. -- Mike Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a million chances happen 99% of the time. Are you using the flash plugin and nspluginwrapper by any chance? If so, try disabling it. I am still testing things but I was good for a few days and then reinstalled that and found my cpu leaked again. I have removed it and reinstalled gnash and my cpu is back to normal. Rusty___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:02:46 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: Hi, I am running FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE built as of Oct 6 17:34:53 EAT 2010. Same day as when I did a portsnap and installed the packages needed to run KDE. I am experiencing frequent problems with kde4. It gets excruciatingly slow and desktop effects keep going down. I tailed .xsession-errors and tried to do what I was doing when it went down and got this: --- tail -f /usr/home/mike/.xsession-errors kio_imap4(5169)/kio_imap IMAP4Protocol::~IMAP4Protocol: IMAP4: Finishing klauncher(1676)/kio (KLauncher): SlavePool: No communication with slave. QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(Solid::DeviceInterface::Type) error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected (Pidgin:7160): Json-CRITICAL **: json_node_get_int: assertion `node != NULL' failed QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(Solid::DeviceInterface::Type) error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected kwin(1691)/kdeui (KIconLoader) KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Failed to establish shared memory mapping, will fallback to private memory -- memory usage will increase link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected! QFont::setPointSize: Point size I am open to any ideas on this topic as well. From what I can basically tell, I am having some sort of CPU leak with XORG. I can restart X (no need to reboot) and my KDE becomes responsive again. But XORG starts at around 3% cpu and just keeps creaping up until it will sit over 60%. It is currently 27% from a restart last night. I don't have kmix open. Disabling desktop effects doesn't appear to have an effect. Chrome vs firefox has no effect. Removing flash and replacing with gnash had no effect either. Thanks! Rusty Nejdl___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
At Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:02:46 +0300, Mike Barnard wrote: I am running FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE built as of Oct 6 17:34:53 EAT 2010. Same day as when I did a portsnap and installed the packages needed to run KDE. I am experiencing frequent problems with kde4. It gets excruciatingly slow and desktop effects keep going down. I tailed .xsession-errors and tried to do what I was doing when it went down and got this: --- tail -f /usr/home/mike/.xsession-errors Actually, you should look for some KWin output for some information on what is going on with desktop effects. You can also try to configure it via System Settings and try to get some more info. And what graphics card and driver are you using? Does it help if you turn desktop effects off? ___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
[kde-freebsd] Re: Desktop effects suspended -- KDE4-4.5.1
I am open to any ideas on this topic as well. From what I can basically tell, I am having some sort of CPU leak with XORG. I can restart X (no need to reboot) and my KDE becomes responsive again. But XORG starts at around 3% cpu and just keeps creaping up until it will sit over 60%. It is currently 27% from a restart last night. I don't have kmix open. Disabling desktop effects doesn't appear to have an effect. Chrome vs firefox has no effect. Removing flash and replacing with gnash had no effect either. Thanks! Rusty Nejdl To reply to myself... I found a bunch of discussions of this affecting other distros besides FreeBSD. I was able to solve this by doing a combination of the following: 1) Stop using Oxygen windows decoration 2) Disable blur affecf 3) Update /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Device0 Monitor Monitor0 DefaultDepth 24 OPTION ADDARGBGLXVISUALS TRUE SubSection Display Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection SECTION EXTENSIONS OPTION COMPOSITE ENABLE ENDSECTION So far, xorg sitting around 3% cpu now even with gnash going and actively using my desktop. Perhaps this might help others with performance issues? Sincerely, Rusty Nejdl___ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
