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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core
> had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was
> mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running
> KDE4.
>
> Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard
> drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of
> RAM. Running gentoo-sources-3.2.1 as kernel. But it seems playing movies
> got even worse!

You don't mention anything about video card or video driver setup.
That's the first thing I would suspect.

What video card? What drivers? Are you using hardware accelerated
movie playback?