nvidia drivers worth installing?

[Srikanth Konjarla]

I can say that i do not run 3D applications on this laptop and i have
decided to give Beryl a try and subsequently i have found that the CPU
is getting higher usage so i wanted to find out if it is normal.
However, i can see that overall system response go down a little bit
because of the higher CPU usage. Nevertheless, i can't say that it is
hindering my usage of laptop. I suppose that disabling (or not using)
"Composite" entails to disable Beryl as well.

Thanks

Srikanth

On 1/24/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> You didn't state what isn't performing to your expectations,  However
> you're using a fairly low end GPU, so there isn't much that can be
> done to improve its performance other than to not use Composite (which
> by nature will result in a performance hit).
>
> On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So, the GPU that my laptop has performing as expected. In this case,
> > how do i improve the performance? As this GPU shares the main memory,
> > would increasing the system memory help?
> >
> > On 1/24/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > As long as the CPU usage isn't consistantly 100%, then this sounds
> > > like expected behavior on the GPU you're using.
> > >
> > > On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > i run "top" and review the "%CPU" field.
> > > >
> > > > On 1/24/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > How are you determining that X is consuming alot of CPU?
> > > > >
> > > > > On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > It is not consistently 100% (i mean does not stay at 100%) for sure.
> > > > > > It goes higher with Beryl.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 1/24/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > How are you determining that X is consuming alot of CPU?  Is it
> > > > > > > consistantly 100% or just higher than without beryl?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > Without Beryl, X server is usually hovering around 5% of cpu (spikes
> > > > > > > > when firefox or thunderbird activity happens) but with Beryl running
> > > > > > > > it consumes lot of CPU (up to 100%). I am running
> > > > > > > > beryl-core-0.1.4-2.fc6.x86_64. Also, i have attached the X log file
> > > > > > > > (Xorg.0.log.gz) with Beryl running.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Srikanth
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 1/24/07, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Sorry about that. I have attached the X log file to this e-mail. Please
> > > > > > > > > > note that currently Beryl is disabled. Let me know if you like to see X
> > > > > > > > > > log file with Beryl enabled.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Srikanth
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > On 1/24/07, Srikanth Konjarla <srikanth.konjarla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > >> I have recently updated nVidia driver (livna rpm x86_64 Kernel Module
> > > > > > > > > > >> 1.0-9746 , Dual Core AMD X2) on FC6 hoping to see some improvement in
> > > > > > > > > > >> performance with Beryl. But, unfortunately i could not find any
> > > > > > > > > > >> improvements in that area. I have been running into the issue where Xorg
> > > > > > > > > > >> would go nuts with CPU when Beryl is running. So, i have disabled the
> > > > > > > > > > >> Beryl. Here is what lspci tells me about my graphics card.
> > > > > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > > > > >> 00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express
> > > > > > > > > > >> Bridge (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
> > > > > > > > > > >>
> > > > > > > > > > >> Wondering if the issue is purely related to nVidia's driver (C51 PCI
> > > > > > > > > > >> Express Bridge) or it is the combination of Beryl and nVidia.
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Is Xorg hitting the CPU immediately, or over time?  Posting your X log
> > > > > > > > > > > would be useful.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Ideally, I'd like to see an X log while the problem is present.
> > > > > > > > > However, are you seeing an actual performance problem, or is it just
> > > > > > > > > that X is using 100% of the CPU while running beryl?  Also, which
> > > > > > > > > version of beryl are you using?
>
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