[olug] High Resource usage new install

[Nick Veys]

My first guess would be video driver.  Are you using a generic Vesa or
nv/nvidia/ati/fglrx?

On 10/18/06, Charles Bird <cbird at mail.datar8.com> wrote:
> Hi guys n gals.
>
> I just installed slackware 11.0 with the 2.4.33.3 kernel on a machine that
> consists of an AMD barton 3000+ with 1GB ram 200GB hdd.
> Install went well, nothing funny, just had to run a script to get audio
> working.
> KDE 3.5 is WM, runs ok...but i notice that my cpu is around 50% most the
> time.. I look at top and X is using 35-50% of the cpu..gxine is using
> about 13-20% cpu when decoding a 128kb mp3 stream...scrolling on a web
> page is messing with the beats man.
>
> I checked my older slack installs on other machines and top doesnt show X
> using more than 5%, this is on an SMP kernel with dual 800Mhz cpus.
>
> Things that make you go Hmmm..
> Anyone know what I can do to tame down the resource usage?
> Shall I recompile things and swear a little bit? Anyone know of any good
> words to use? ;)
>
> Thx in adv
>
>
>
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