On Saturday 29 April 2006 08:47, Pavel Troller wrote: > Hi! > And finally, about the problem: Generally, the system is very fast. KDE > starts up for about 6 seconds for the first time on a freshly booted system > (bottleneck in the hard disk bandwidth, even it's a SATA-II) and subsequent > starts are below 2 secs. Amazing! However, *some* graphical operations are > *unbelievably* slow. For example, rendering a page in konqueror occurs in one - > two steps, but every step takes about 3 seconds (!) and one may observe the > process, how the image is slowly appearing from top to bottom of the screen. > Please be aware that it's not slow khtml rendering, it's slow copying of the > rendered image to the physical window. Scrolling of the page is a pain - every > small movement of the scroll slider causes a "wave" going upside down and > redrawing the contents. I think that a dialog box saying "Please wait, putting > a pixel" would be appropriate here :-). > This behaviour contrasts with the rest of the system - even the graphical > actions like appearing/disappearing of windows with full contents are nicely > fast. I've found a second app - kpat - which probably exhibits something > similar. The card movement is very choppy and it seems that the system is > totally busy when playing a demo :-). However, I can play any video in kaffeine > or kmplayer without a glich and with CPU load of 0.20 :-). > Does anybody have any hint, what's the possible cause and how to fix it ? Not much of a hint, but: * Which version of KDE and X? * What process eats CPU according to top? Konqueror or X? * Try older KDE and/or X version -- vda ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.