On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster <wo...@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?
