[olug] High Resource usage new install

[Charles Bird]

Oh ya, I forgot i had my old Radeon7500 AGP card in this box.
ok, thanks, I know what to do now. Its not direct Rend.
Thanks again.


> My first guess would be video driver.  Are you using a generic Vesa or
> nv/nvidia/ati/fglrx?
>
> On 10/18/06, Charles Bird <cbird at mail.datar8.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys n gals.
>>
>> I just installed slackware 11.0 with the 2.4.33.3 kernel on a machine
>> that
>> consists of an AMD barton 3000+ with 1GB ram 200GB hdd.
>> Install went well, nothing funny, just had to run a script to get audio
>> working.
>> KDE 3.5 is WM, runs ok...but i notice that my cpu is around 50% most the
>> time.. I look at top and X is using 35-50% of the cpu..gxine is using
>> about 13-20% cpu when decoding a 128kb mp3 stream...scrolling on a web
>> page is messing with the beats man.
>>
>> I checked my older slack installs on other machines and top doesnt show
>> X
>> using more than 5%, this is on an SMP kernel with dual 800Mhz cpus.
>>
>> Things that make you go Hmmm..
>> Anyone know what I can do to tame down the resource usage?
>> Shall I recompile things and swear a little bit? Anyone know of any good
>> words to use? ;)
>>
>> Thx in adv
>>
>>
>>
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