[ubuntu-uk] Compositing performance hit

Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.ledkov at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 01:17:47 GMT 2008


Strange thing it does show up invalid. Ohh well I'll try next time ;)

That's FireGPG for you =( I'll use evolution next time.

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
> <dmitrij.ledkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > You shouldn't notice the difference =D
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
> >
> > iD8DBQFH6q/vIfDtEE/1weQRAkv9AKDtSbh6gSGGGP9WBP8rXaHRM1BftwCePKeB
> > NOfi3PVc/Kw2cH661ApmTOY=
> > =+U20
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Chris Rowson <
> christopherrowson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello people,
> > >
> > > Quick question. Does running Ubuntu with compositing enabled effect
> > > the overall performance of the system?
> > >
> > > I'm running the following spec laptop with Hardy:
> > >
> > > Pentium IV mobile 2.0Ghz
> > > 512 MB RAM
> > > Nvidia Geforce 440
> > >
> > > Desktop effects are enabled by default as soon as I enable the nvidia
> driver.
> > >
> > > Just wondered if the system was powerful enough?
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > With best regards
>
> I could barely work that out with those bloody PGP things... but yes,
> there should be very little performance hit. If you are running
> anything very intensive, I would turn them off... otherwise you should
> be perfectly fine.
>
> By the way, the Start+Tab effect looks cool :)
>
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-- 
With best regards



Dmitrijs Ledkovs
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