freebsd7 & kde4 & performance

[Michal Kulczewski]

mdh wrote:


> Michal, can you describe in more detail just what is performing poorly?  Things like what effects, what actions you're taking, what your settings are that effect those actions, etc?  I'm running KDE4.1.1 from ports on 7-STABLE and have no performance problems at all with an AthlonX2, 2gigs of memory, and a GeForce6200 card using nvidia binary drivers.  One thing I have come up against was the nvidia "black windows bug" with OpenGL effects turned on, but turning them off doesn't signifigantly hinder my enjoyment of KDE4, or make it too much less sexy to be honest.  The performance was also fine even with them turned on; it simply caused that bug to occur which made it less usable.  
> Generally speaking, I've found GNOME to run with more performance issues despite less bells and whistles than KDE every time on any system where I've tried it.  
> If you provide some more information, maybe I can direct you to some setting tweaks, etc, but as I said it's working just lovely for me (and this is with a ton of apps open, by the way - several seamonkey windows, a bunch of kpdf, eclipse, many many konsole tabs, xmms, ktorrent, and more.  
> One thing I am curious of is if you're running i386 FreeBSD, or another architecture (amd64, ia64, etc?)  

I'm running 7.0 stable with ULE scheduler on i386 architecture (since
it's Pentium M). I've tried to use kde4 out of the box (after
compilation). Whole kde is running poorly. I have to wait seconds for
any action to complete (right mouse button, moving windows, moving
widgets, etc), so, as you can imagine, I'm not that patient to tweak any
settings while using kde4. Now I see that many of you are using nvidia
binary drivers, maybe this is the answer why my kde4 is running so slow.
However, beryl is working quite fast for me. kde4 is using only 4% of
processor, hal and dbus are enabled and running.

-- 
Michal