On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 16:10 -0600, Jan Depner wrote: > Some window managers cause quite a lot of I/O. KDE and Gnome > being > the biggest offenders. Generally any change in the window manager is > saved to disk somewhere. This isn't the case with Fluxbox, fvwm, > Blackbox, etc. > Gnome does not do this. > > If your WM is so bloated that it causes disk IO then the best advice > is > > to get a better WM. > > > > This was the point of the entire thread. I was pointing out that > CPU is not the only bottleneck and that is why I use a light WM > instead > of KDE when recording. > I think your problem is KDE specific. It's by far the most bloated of the desktops. Lee
