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kyfalcon

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KDE slower than a snail on MD
« on: December 20, 2011, 05:52:24 pm »
Is there anything I can do to make KDE run faster on MD's or is this just a casualty of running diskless MD? I can watch paint peel faster than thinks move in KDE.
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2011, 09:37:54 am »
Doesn't happen to be an atom is it?

if so sorry   .... hazards of an ATOM

HTH

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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2011, 03:28:40 pm »
Zotac zboxes, which I believe are atoms. :(

Why is that? Is there anything I can do to slightly improve this?
« Last Edit: December 21, 2011, 05:31:43 pm by kyfalcon »
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2011, 06:34:19 pm »
To my experience LMCE 8.10 on Atom is slow but still usable, on 10.04 it's snail-speed.

/Joakim
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2011, 06:50:32 pm »
Quote from: JoakimL on December 21, 2011, 06:34:19 pm
To my experience LMCE 8.10 on Atom is slow but still usable, on 10.04 it's snail-speed.

/Joakim

I agree it seems things really got bad in 10.04
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2011, 09:53:48 pm »
Yep I found this also.
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2011, 05:32:49 am »
Quote from: kyfalcon on December 20, 2011, 05:52:24 pm
Is there anything I can do to make KDE run faster on MD's or is this just a casualty of running diskless MD? I can watch paint peel faster than thinks move in KDE.

Is it the processing that is slow or the video re-render when putting the orbiter on screen? And are you using Alpha blending or overlay? Because those have different requirements and could cause slowdown in different ways with how the cards are accessed and such?
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2011, 11:12:38 am »
My experience is that LMCE is working great on Atom, it's just KDE that's slow.

/Joakim
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2011, 04:25:20 pm »
my Atom 330/ION seems fine with 0810 as an MD, not sure I have noticed KDE speeds
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2011, 04:27:25 pm »
LMCE works great - KDE snail slow
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2011, 09:10:47 pm »
I am using an Atom MD and for giggles started KDE, when TSCHAK mentioned snail speed. Well, I did not have snail speed, everything worked as expected, as it works on another Atom powered stand alone PC.
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2011, 01:21:30 am »
According to top, "mythcommflag" is absolutely molesting the resources when I go into KDE desktop, CPU usage does not drop below 99, and often goes above 100, even once the desktop is apparently loaded up. This is 1004. I always found the KDE desktop to be perfectly OK in 810.
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #12 on: December 23, 2011, 05:44:51 am »
This is a known problem, unfortunately, I do not at this time have a solution. Does somebody want to take a crack at this?

-Thom
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #13 on: December 23, 2011, 11:47:30 am »
Thom, are you referring to the slowness issue in general, or specifically to "mythcommflag"? Or is it "mythcommflag" causing the slowness in the first place?

If "mythcommflag" is going mental when you go into KDE desktop, will it also happen when selecting something that opens in a browser from the computing menu? I didn't check this.

It's only for marking adverts/commercials isn't it? Can it safely be killed?

Cheers,
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Re: KDE slower than a snail on MD
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2011, 03:15:43 pm »
No, it's not just mythcommflag, although that could possibly contribute to it. You can turn off mythcommflag in the setup menu of mythfrontend.

-Thom
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