Hi Forum,
I'm using KDE 4-4.4.5_1 (as a package, not as a custom compiled port) under FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE (Sun Oct 31 15:06:27 CET 2010 - GENERIC - i386) on a Lenovo R61i laptop computer (Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz - 686 class CPU).
The computer came with 1GB of RAM.
I noticed right away that the KDE desktop was highly unresponsive, reacting very very slowly to desktop events, like windows or desktop switch : all the opposite to being fast and smooth
I tried unsuccessfully to run with compiled and tuned custom the kernel : no enhencement whatsoever.
I tuned KDE for no desktop effect, low resolution, low CPU : no enhencement either.
Therefore I decided it must be the amoutn of RAM, though I never found anything to support that. I upgraded to 4GB : non enhencement either. My system monitoring shows that the system is not swapping on disk, for there is now ample RAM to support all in-memory computer tasks.
As a result, I feel very frustrated. The KDE desktop is very slow, very unresponsive, and gives the feeling that the computer displays a behavior almost opposite to real-time.
The kernel uses the ULE default scheduler.
Does someone have an idea where I should start looking at to better diagnose and solve my problem ?
Any hint and tip would be a great help.
Thank you in advance.
Franck
I'm using KDE 4-4.4.5_1 (as a package, not as a custom compiled port) under FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE (Sun Oct 31 15:06:27 CET 2010 - GENERIC - i386) on a Lenovo R61i laptop computer (Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz - 686 class CPU).
The computer came with 1GB of RAM.
I noticed right away that the KDE desktop was highly unresponsive, reacting very very slowly to desktop events, like windows or desktop switch : all the opposite to being fast and smooth
I tried unsuccessfully to run with compiled and tuned custom the kernel : no enhencement whatsoever.
I tuned KDE for no desktop effect, low resolution, low CPU : no enhencement either.
Therefore I decided it must be the amoutn of RAM, though I never found anything to support that. I upgraded to 4GB : non enhencement either. My system monitoring shows that the system is not swapping on disk, for there is now ample RAM to support all in-memory computer tasks.
As a result, I feel very frustrated. The KDE desktop is very slow, very unresponsive, and gives the feeling that the computer displays a behavior almost opposite to real-time.
The kernel uses the ULE default scheduler.
Does someone have an idea where I should start looking at to better diagnose and solve my problem ?
Any hint and tip would be a great help.
Thank you in advance.
Franck