[ubuntu-uk] Compositing performance hit

[Stephen O'Neill]

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Kris Douglas wrote:
| I could barely work that out with those bloody PGP things...


They are a pain. I only use inline signatures because clients like
outlook express don't support pgp/mime - so inline is the lowest common
denominator.


| 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.


I have a laptop with a Nvidia GeForce Go chipset. The compositing stuff
worked fine except that at apparently random points (every 20 minutes or
so) the machine would freeze for a few seconds - unresponsive, gkrellm
not updating etc. Then it would come back and carry on until the next
time. When I disabled compositing I found this issue went away.

I will probably have another go when Hardy is released.

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Stephen O'Neill
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