Re: Slow X due to gkrellm

On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:25:41 +0200, houghi wrote:

fabrice wrote:
context: gkrellm running, with cpu temp AND gpu temp displayed in
gkrellm; not heavy workload (web browsing, dolphin opened, very low
load) problem: mouse hang for a few seconds (frozen desktop) then all
is back as normal

No workload with me either. At least nothing that should slow it down.

what I've done:
1) installed kernel-default instead of kernel-desktop; I can't confirm
any improvement, even if I "feel" it's better (need more systematic
investigations)
2) in gkrellm: unchecked "gpu temp"; I "feel" it's better, but as I'm
switching from 11.2 to 11.3 and back, I have not investigated enough
under 11.3

I have tried to remove everything in gkrellm and then added things. It
seems the more you add, the more sluggish it becomes. So it is not only
one thing. As I have a quadcore, only one CPU will go to 100%, so on CLI
I can still use the other three without any problem.


Has anyone made any progress on this? I'm having the same problem and I'm
tired of switching back and forth between 11.2 and 11.3. I uninstalled
the xorg-x11-driver-video-nouveau package and it seamed to be okay for a
while, but next day the same thing.

I came back to 11.3 last night and ran glxgears overnight and it was
still okay this morning. Now it's doing the same thing again. Very
distracting.

One more thing, I did add nomodeset to the kernel line in menu.lst and it
doesn't seam to have made any difference.

TIA,

Dennis
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