Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

Apparently, though unproven, at 18:49 on Thursday 11 November 2010, Dale did 
opine thusly:

> Dale wrote:
> > I did a test just then and my video was slow again.  This is what I
> > get now.
> > 
> > root@smoker / # glxgears
> > Running synchronized to the vertical refresh.  The framerate should be
> > approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
> > 677 frames in 5.6 seconds = 120.183 FPS
> > 1 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.132 FPS
> > 1 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.132 FPS
> > 1 frames in 8.2 seconds =  0.122 FPS
> > 1 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.131 FPS
> > 1 frames in 7.6 seconds =  0.132 FPS
> > XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server
> > ":0.0"
> > 
> >       after 46 requests (46 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> > 
> > root@smoker / #
> > 
> > 
> > So, looks like emerge -e world didn't help after all.  So what should
> > I check now?  Do I need to get my hammer out?
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > :-)  :-)
> 
> False alarm.  I looked at top and noticed that that stupid hp-systray
> was using about 90% of my CPU.  I killed that thing and now it plays
> fine again.
> 
> I do wish they would fix that thing.  For some reason hp-systray does
> that from time to time.  It is usually after dbus has a hiccup.  Logging
> out of KDE and back in again usually fixes it tho.
> 
> Anyway, back to normal.  Well, normal for me anyway.  ;-)

Whatever hp-systray is, I'd dump it.

When a single app or feature kills the entire machine and it's ability to draw 
on the screen, it's time to find a way to do without the app.


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