Effects vs. Screen performance
Georgi Kourtev
gkourtev at gmail.com
Mon Feb 21 06:23:42 UTC 2011
On Friday, February 18, 2011 18:33:32 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 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?
Both does not show anything worrying: see below the output.
FROM free
--------------
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2051240 1904628 146612 0 40064 1261936
-/+ buffers/cache: 602628 1448612
Swap: 6142972 0 6142972
---------
FROM top
-----
gkourtev at gkourtev-laptop:~$ top
top - 08:21:31 up 26 min, 2 users, load average: 0.77, 0.87, 0.91
Tasks: 167 total, 2 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 2.9%us, 1.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.4%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 2051240k total, 1894048k used, 157192k free, 40064k buffers
Swap: 6142972k total, 0k used, 6142972k free, 1230000k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1244 root 20 0 114m 44m 19m S 4 2.2 3:19.88 Xorg
2306 gkourtev 20 0 124m 21m 15m S 2 1.1 0:03.39 konsole
1617 gkourtev 20 0 214m 41m 23m S 1 2.0 1:47.81 kwin
1631 gkourtev 20 0 346m 69m 31m S 1 3.5 0:31.18 plasma-desktop
7 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.97 ksoftirqd/1
1129 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.12 kslowd000
1521 root 20 0 20924 4940 2844 S 0 0.2 0:01.15 upowerd
1593 gkourtev 20 0 105m 18m 14m S 0 0.9 0:00.48 kwalletd
2452 gkourtev 20 0 2620 1144 840 R 0 0.1 0:00.16 top
1 root 20 0 2868 1684 1204 S 0 0.1 0:00.71 init
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
3 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.18 ksoftirqd/0
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/1
8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1
9 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 0 0.0 0:00.05 events/0
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.53 events/1
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuset
12 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
13 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 netns
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr
15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pm
17 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 sync_supers
18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 bdi-default
19 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
20 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1
21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.20 kblockd/0
22 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1
23 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify
25 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_hotplug
26 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 ata_sff/0
28 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.05 ata_sff/1
29 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 khubd
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