On 02/26/2010 09:40 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote: > a) As far as I know huge changes were made to the KDE multimedia > subsystem, aka Phonon. CPU usage was not high before the KDE 4.4 > update. Not really. Most of the major updates here landed without our previous kde-4.3.4 and phonon-4.3.80 ones. > b) I have reported a number of bug that were shut down due to "the use > of the proprietary nvidia driver" where it was ultimately found that the > driver had nothing to do with it. Sure, there are exceptions, but genuine driver issues still outnumber others by far. That said, video drivers have zero bearing here, flash does. I can chime in to report that I too have seen higher cpu usage with flash/nspluginview, but only noticed recently, *after* a flash-plugin update that I installed on Jan 27. -- Rex
