Re: [gentoo-user] AIGLX responseness (WAS: libGL issues & AIGLX slowness)

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 10/29/06, Tomáš Bartoň <tommz9@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 13:36, Marco Calviani wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >   the slowness of AIGLX was due to the fact that i was running
> > xorg-server without enabling the aiglx flag. After having enabled it
> > xorg started running with AIGLX (using compiz or beryl).
> > Although the system is quite usable there is still an issue: i thought
> > the system would have relied completely on video card acceleration.
> > However whenever i run an AIGLX effect such as the cube or just window
> > moving the CPU goes up to 80-90% during all the time the effect is
> > running. This behaviour makes the system A LOT less responsive than it
> > is without AIGLX.
> > Is this a known issue?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > MC
>
> I tkink its normal. I run beryl with NVidia driver and when I move a window or
> something the CPU goes up to 100% ...

Hmm, I also have an nvidia GPU, and my system doesn't exhibit this
behavior.  Of course, I get the black-windows bug due to a memory leak
in the drivers, but certainly no excessive CPU usage for any of the
beryl effects.

-Richard

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