Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 12:47:37 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Improving kde perfomance... Message-ID: <1801B6D2817BA7FA47D274F4@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> In-Reply-To: <8dc358df0604151014x1fb2a25dye538797bc4adeea@mail.gmail.com> References: <8dc358df0604151014x1fb2a25dye538797bc4adeea@mail.gmail.com>
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--On April 15, 2006 5:14:14 PM +0000 Paulino Calderon=20
<paulino.calderon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey folks, Ive been googling about howto improve kde perfomance, i ve
> always used fluxbox as my wm but recently I got a new laptop, it has a
> 3.2 ghz processor, 1 gb of ram, and an ati mobility radeon x600 wiith 256
> mb of video meomry so I decided to try kde but so far the perfomance has
> benn really poor, cpu usage is always between 20-25% eventhough im not
> doing anything, most apps takes between 5 and 10 seconds to start, and
> even the mouse pointer feels like it gets stuck when i move it too fast,
> is this as fast as it gets for kde? or do you guys think there is
> osmething wrong with my installation? I instaleld it via ports by the =
way.
>
Strange. My install is quite peppy.
99 processes: 2 running, 96 sleeping, 1 stopped
CPU states: 99.6% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0%=20
idle
Mem: 322M Active, 479M Inact, 131M Wired, 39M Cache, 111M Buf, 25M Free
Swap: 500M Total, 55M Used, 444M Free, 11% Inuse
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p6 #1: Sat Apr 1 21:39:10 CST 2006
root@hostname.utdallas.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz (3591.11-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0xf41 Stepping =3D 1
=20
Features=3D0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,M=
CA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE
2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=3D0x451d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,TM2,CNTX-ID,<b14>>
Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory =3D 1072193536 (1022 MB)
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
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