I've enabled dma in hdparamd and it's greatly improoved the performance, so no more bluedeath effect, but some slowdowns still appear and I also think this is about fonts or something similar.
------- Original message ------- From: Rigo Wenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: bluedeath effect Date: 1 Август 2005 23:37 > Yes, but no effect. I will now try to cut down my fonts to the absolute > minimum. It was funny that on a new install it booted much faster and > then I installed something that made it slower (probably more fonts), > but as it was in a big chunk of packets to install, I couldn't > determine the exact cause. > > This is not ready for a bug-report but I already had some contacts with > fontconfig maintainers on fixed-font issues and they blamed KDE ;) > > Overall it works, but there might be space for optimizations, that's > all. > > Best, > > Rigo > > Am Thursday 21 July 2005 16:39 verlautbarte David Martínez Moreno : > > > I suspect the lack of cooperations between KDE and fontconfig to be > > > the origin of the issue. Mostly, delays were cost by some app > > > waiting for some font before falling back to some other value. I > > > haven't managed to fix the issue so far. If you use russian > > > truetype fonts, it seems to be even more error prone. > > > > Have you tried to run 'fc-cache -f' as root?
