From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@bway.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:49:14 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.58.0511101248460.21417@ida.bway.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <976cb44f0511100818s6dfb59e4vb7484e51afc61521@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:
> It definitely is not an issue with swapping to disk. For some reason X is
> causing a high CPU load and it acts like its only using one processor. If I
> switch back to the open source driver the load seems to be balanced across
> all "4" processors. To make things even more interesting if I open glxgears
> while using the Nvidia driver the problem can be temporarily alleviated. The
> CPU load drops back to normal and the system is much more responsive. The
> open source driver is working fine for now but I sure would like to know
> what it is that I'm doing to cause the Nvidia driver to perform so poorly.
Maybe the Nvidia drivers dont play well with threading and/or SMP?
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-07 7:00 [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64) Greg Bur
2005-11-07 11:42 ` brullo nulla
2005-11-07 19:09 ` Greg Bur
2005-11-07 21:05 ` A. Khattri
2005-11-08 1:13 ` Greg Bur
2005-11-08 21:40 ` A. Khattri
2005-11-10 16:18 ` Greg Bur
2005-11-10 17:49 ` A. Khattri [this message]
2005-11-10 21:11 ` Greg Bur
2005-11-11 6:14 ` Greg Bur
2005-11-16 0:31 ` Greg Bur
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