Profiling X, KDE, KWin and friends...

[Ilyes Gouta]

Hi Basil,

Thanks for your advice. Actually, my goal is to figure out exactly why the
graphics performance is so poor :)
I definitely hope F11 will do better on my hardware.

Regards,
Ilyes Gouta.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Basil Mohamed Gohar <
abu_hurayrah at hidayahonline.org> wrote:

> On 04/15/2009 07:12 PM, Ilyes Gouta wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running Fedora 10 on my old Thinkpad R50e, which has a Pentium M and
>> an intel 855GM graphics card and I'm not happy with the performance of KDE,
>> Kwin, Xserver and al. where sometimes, I can clearly see a given window
>> getting its background cleared and its content redrawn slowly. I remember I
>> didn't have annoying artifacts when I was running Windows, three years ago
>> on the same machine. I don't have composition enabled or any fancy thing in
>> my KDE setup. So basically, I'm asking if you guys know about any profiling
>> tool that would enable me to see where the system is spending its time,
>> especially when rendering the desktop.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> -Ilyes
>>
> Ilyes,
>
> I was having terrible problems with F10 on my 4+year-old laptop, and I am
> now running rawhide from a F11 Beta install, and nearly all my problems,
> including disk & display performance problems, have gone away.  I hope I am
> not far from the truth when I say (at least as I've been told) Xorg in F10
> had some issues, almost all of which are fixed in the version that is
> scheduled for F11.
>
> Try the F11 Beta or Snapshot Live CD on a USB stick or bootable flash
> memory, like I did.  You'll probably notice some great improvements.
>
> Note:  I've /only/ had these problems with F10. F8 & F9 never gave me
> performance problems.
>
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