On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 12:12 +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Fedora 10 on my old Thinkpad R50e, which has a Pentium M > and an intel 855GM graphics card and I'm not happy with the > performance of KDE, Kwin, Xserver and al. where sometimes, I can > clearly see a given window getting its background cleared and its > content redrawn slowly. I remember I didn't have annoying artifacts > when I was running Windows, three years ago on the same machine. I > don't have composition enabled or any fancy thing in my KDE setup. So > basically, I'm asking if you guys know about any profiling tool that > would enable me to see where the system is spending its time, > especially when rendering the desktop. I'm fairly sure performance regressions are one of the known issues with older Intel chips (pre-i915, basically) on the newer versions of the intel driver, so you may want to check redhat and freedesktop bugzillas first to see if anyone's reported similar problems. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
