Slowness

[Ciprian Ciubotariu]

I have had the same problem, but with all the KDE applications. Those
that have more controls seem to get the hit first though. At the same
time, no-KDE apps (emacs for instance) was speedy as usual.

>From some talks on irc, bug lists, mailing lists and forums, it seems it
was related to the video drivers, leaking kwin effects or some similar
problems. However, speaking to KDE developers it seems most don't leave
computers on for more days, so this may take a while to get fixed.

On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 23:58 +0300, Leon Pollak wrote:
> On Friday 26 August 2011 10:10:10 Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> > On 08/25/2011 01:20 PM, Leon Pollak wrote:
> > > After some time of kde-kdevelop running (sometimes 15-20hours, sometimes
> > > after 0.5h), kdevelop becomes too slow: moving in the text suffers from
> > > 1-2s delays, source file switching is very slow, moving between 'debug'
> > > and 'code' working sets is VERY slow, etc.
> > > 
> > > Restart of the kdevelop does not solve the issue, but restart of the
> > > whole computer does... till the next time it appears...:-(
> > 
> > Does turning off compositor (default Alt-Ctrl-F12) help?
> WOW!!! It seems to help, although I do not know what I did with that - google 
> does not provide clear enough (for me) description.
> 
> So, I pressed Alt-Ctrl-F12 and received the black screen with blinking cursor, 
> which was expected...:-)
> Then, I pressed Alt-Ctrl-F1 to return to the graphic screen, but now kdevelop 
> seems to work fast back!!
> 
> What does it mean? How does it work?
> Thanks a lot ahead for clarification!!!
> And a lot of saved time and nerves!!!