On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:51:59PM -0700, David E. Thiel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:54:54PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > I use nvidia or nv driver (nvidia one is a bit less worse). The lag can > > even appears with 4% of CPU usage according to top(1). > > Thanks to your remarks and my tests, I'm now sure it's scheduler > > independent. It seems 7-CURRENT is slower than 6.X regarding I/O :( > > For info the box is a 1.2GHz Athlon with 1GB of RAM and swap is never > > used. > > This may sound like a silly question, but what terminal emulator are you > using? I found that xfce's Terminal gave me awful performance, taking a > really long time to redraw, but xterm and roxterm sped things up a lot. I > think for me part of this is related to the nvidia driver breakage with > the new Xorg. Can you see if you can duplicate that behavior with xterm? > I use x11/rxvt-devel but the lag also exists on Xorg 7.2. I feel it has nothing to do with Xorg. On other hand, it's true any GTK based application is most of time worse in term of performance. Building a port can freeze or slow down webpages loading in Firefox... -- MarcReceived on Mon Oct 01 2007 - 18:07:20 UTC
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