Hi there,
it seems that I’m having a problem with my system configuration.
I’m using OpenSuse 11.1 and nearly everything i do within KDE results in a high CPU (50 to 80 percent) usage generated by X.
The following behaviour occures (just the most notable ones):
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Open/Closing Yakuake (quake-style console):
X 70% CPU usage, Yakuake 11% CPU usage -
Scrolling within firefox
X 68% CPU usage, Firefox 32% CPU usage -
Tabbing within firefox
X 61% CPU usage, Firefox 26% CPU usage -
Scrolling within Thunderbird
X 46% CPU usage, Thunderbird 26% CPU usage -
The whole system seems to be slow, when clicking a Tab within Firefox it doesn’t change immediately but there is a short delay, the same occures when minimizing windows, maximizing windows, closing windows, scrolling etc…
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When Minimizing/maximizing/Closing a window it doesn’t disappear immediately but the screen turns grey for a short time and after that the window is closed/minimized/maximized
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After login the following screen with the status bar is shown for a long time (about 10 to 15 seconds which is nearly as long as the system needs to boot to the login screen) and most of the time the status bar doesn’t change, even though on my second screen it already shows the desktop background
Systeminformation:
Athlon X2 5000+
2 GB Ram
200 GB HDD
ATI X1300
I already installed the proprietary ATI driver:
work@workstation:~> fglrxinfo
display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.1.8395 Release
work@workstation:~> glxinfo|grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes
- glxgears working
work@workstation:~> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2034036 868588 1165448 0 25520 440604
-/+ buffers/cache: 402464 1631572
Swap: 2096472 0 2096472
work@workstation:~> top
top - 08:55:16 up 35 min, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.14, 0.22
Tasks: 118 total, 1 running, 117 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.7%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.9%id, 0.3%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2034036k total, 869392k used, 1164644k free, 25616k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 0k used, 2096472k free, 440608k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2666 root 20 0 730m 158m 14m S 3 8.0 4:18.36 X
4103 work 20 0 77264 20m 15m S 1 1.1 0:05.14 yakuake
4608 work 20 0 2416 996 768 R 1 0.0 0:00.10 top
1 root 20 0 1008 360 308 S 0 0.0 0:00.96 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 ksoftirqd/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.12 events/0
8 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.24 events/1
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1
12 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
13 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1
14 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
15 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
16 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue
17 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
18 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.14 kondemand/0
I don’t know how to go on from this point, I tried to find a solution but didn’t find anything usefull by using this forum or Google :-/
Could it be that the driver for my graphic card causes this trouble? I don’t know for sure, but I think the system was faster before the installation of the driver. Even though i need it since I couldn’t get both of monitors to act as one big screen, even when Choosing “Xinerama” within Sax they were just configured as “cloned” screens.
P.S.: Sorry for the bad english, I’m trying to get better 