[Kstars-devel] KStars 1.0 CPU Usage

[Dik Takken]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Jason Harris wrote:

> I've seen something similar to Alessio's problem.  On my desktop, I
> would get X using most of the CPU.  After some research, I found that
> disabling DRI completely fixed the problem.  That was with a Radeon
> video card.  I have an Nvidia card now, and haven't had the problem
> since I switched.  Based on this, I concluded that my problem was due
> to a bad Radeon dri driver.

I also have a NVidia card, but I use the open source driver on DRI. I
might try what happens when I use the closed source driver...

> On Tuesday 06 January 2004 07:39 am, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> > Dik Takken wrote:
> > > Another remark about the high CPU usage, it seems to happen
> > > everytime KStars opens up a blocking window like a
> > > image-download, but also a print preview.
> > >
> > > Maybe it's a KDE bug?
> >
> > I've had a similar bug with kstars. It happens only on some
> > computers, for example in my laptop I've never had such a problem,
> > but on my desktop system I always have it. The same on my
> > girlfriend's computer: the system is not freezed but very slow to
> > react to user input both mouse and keyboard.
> >
> > Someone on the mailing list told me to disable dri... I must say I
> > didn't experiment a lot but I still have this bug. The bug also
> > happens if I open a network display, kstars running on my laptop
> > but displaying on my desktop system.
> >
> > ciao
> > Alessio Sangalli
> >
> >
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