Effects vs. Screen performance

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday, February 18, 2011, Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> This issue appeared after I had 10.04 installed and onwards (currently I
> am  with 10.10).  It was not the case with previous versions of Kubuntu.
> Some people suggest to simply disable the effects, but I like the KDE
> effects and would like to keep them running.
> 
> I'll appreciate if some can share ideas on how to solve this once and
> forever.   Cheers,
> gk

Have you run 'top'  to see if something is tying up your CPU?

Or 'free' to see if you are running low on free space?