<div>Thats weird!<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have a EeePC with 2Gb RAM and 630Mhz on use, with Kopete, Kontact (Kmail + Kaddressbook + Kalendar + ToDo + Journal), Skype, Opera with tons of tabs, 2 PDF opened, yakuake and im not reporting problems</div>
<div><br></div><div>Im using Composite but no desktop effects, i havent problem with that, but is a laptop, and desktop effects can kill my battery faster.</div><div><br></div><div>That my free -m and df -h</div><div><br>
</div><div>Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>rootfs 3.7G 3.4G 70M 99% /<br>/dev/root 3.7G 3.4G 70M 99% /<br>rc-svcdir 1.0M 60K 964K 6% /lib/rc/init.d<br>
udev 10M 152K 9.9M 2% /dev<br>shm 1009M 0 1009M 0% /dev/shm<br>tmpfs 1000M 520M 481M 52% /tmp<br>tmpfs 1009M 44K 1009M 1% /var/run<br>tmpfs 1009M 216K 1008M 1% /var/log</div>
<div><br></div><div> total used free shared buffers cached<br>Mem: 2016 1962 53 0 10 1409<br>-/+ buffers/cache: 543 1473<br>
Swap: 124 4 120<br><br></div><div>My swap is 128MB ram and i have a lot on cache...<br></div><div><br></div><div>So, is a problem with your system or daemons =\</div><div><br></div><div>Weird...</div>
<div> </div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ibc@aliax.net">ibc@aliax.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
El Jueves, 25 de Junio de 2009, Michael Pyne escribió:<br>
<div><div class="h5">> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 21:12:23 Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:<br>
> > The fact is that dissabling composite (nvidia driver) the speed is really<br>
> > similar.<br>
> ><br>
> > So, do you think I need a better computer for KDE4? The fact is that I'll<br>
> > buy a new one :), but I really expected that 1 GB RAM and CPU 1600 MHz<br>
> > (dual core) was enough for "using" KDE4 with just a few apps open<br>
> > (Konqueror, Kopete, Kontact and Yakuake plus KDE4 core daemons).<br>
><br>
> You don't need a better computer, you need better video drivers. KDE 4's<br>
> compositing support relies on features of graphics cards that are not often<br>
> used by games or other 3D software. Therefore the driver support for these<br>
> features is generally poor. Older mobile Intel chipset for laptops and<br>
> such work nicely in my experience. In theory older Radeon cards are good<br>
> as well (r300 series or lower!) I have a r500 card and the graphics work<br>
> but compositing is unbearably slow (and it wasn't better when I had nvidia<br>
> either).<br>
><br>
> In short, you just need to wait for the video driver support to catch up to<br>
> allow compositing to work smoothly.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Well, as I say I feel the same feeling dissabing composite :(<br>
<div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
--<br>
Iñaki Baz Castillo <<a href="mailto:ibc@aliax.net">ibc@aliax.net</a>><br>
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