[kde-linux] kmail and kdewallet

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009 09:19:11 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > When i wrote the above statement i was meaning that they seem to not to
> > care that much about optimisation and stability. KDE is still considered
> > as a resource consuming environment.
>
> That is mostly a myth. Due to shared runtime infrastructure and libraries
> the per application overhead is very low, resulting in a low overall
> resource footprint for a KDE session.
> Lubos Lunak once had a very interesting comparison of different setups in
> one of his blog articles.

There has been a massive change in my system over the last 24 hours, which 
might provoke some thought for other systems.  It was suggested that my cpu 
might be having to bear a heavy load because my radeon X600 video card wasn't 
sufficiently capable.  Then Nikos Chantziaras told me to try "AccelMethod" 
"EXA" in my xorg.conf.  This was not really to solve the problem of speed, but 
to address the random freezes when desktop effects were running.  The 
difference is immense.  Now, with desktop effects running it is totally 
stable, as far as I can tell - I haven't had a single freeze since I enabled 
this yesterday morning - and I haven't seen long delays and runaway cpu usage.

I've written this up at http://userbase.kde.org/GPU-
Performance#Desktop_Effects_causes_random_freezes.  I understand that the same 
EXA method works for some Intel cards that have this problem.  I'll try to get 
a grip on the additional information I've been given and write it up in the 
same place later today.

Anne
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