On 4 May 2010 14:38, Kwan Lowe <k...@digitalhermit.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:19 PM, DB <freddog...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > 2) Running top itself outputs lots of data to the display. You may get > different results if you SSH'ed into the system and ran top remotely. >
Even opening a terminal emulator with transparency effects can be costly at times. > 3) You're running a graphics intensive desktop (plasma). If you don't > have proper hardware support then the CPU will have to do all the > heavy lifting. Even something as innocuous as scrolling text on a > transparent window will chew up CPU cycles. Could sometimes be buggy drivers. I have seen both OS or proprietary drivers (mostly proprietary though :-p ) struggle with a regular desktop with compositing turned on, whereas having not much trouble playing an HD video, or a 3D game. It would be good to know what graphics hardware you are running and what drivers you are using. Try these, $ glxinfo | grep direct $ lspci | grep VGA $ lsmod | grep <driver_name> -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
