On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 10:13 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > 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. I didn't know this. > > 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. I don't know that, just because I don't keep track, but I'll take your word and agree. And I understand that you guys have other priorities, etc. > That said, video drivers have zero bearing here, flash does. I didn't know that either. > 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. That would be greatly appreciated, Rex. Let me/us know what we can do to help. ie bugzilla report, testing, etc. Nice work, Rex. LG
