From kde-core-devel  Thu Oct 25 18:58:13 2007
From: Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:58:13 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Release schedule clarifications
Message-Id: <20071025190158.GA10861 () silver ! local>
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:34:56PM +0300, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > draging a rather large digital clock applet all around the desktop
> > for 10-15s results in plasma taking .3% cpu, and x.org taking 5-8%.
> > doing the same with a dolphin window of comparable size results in
> > x.org taking 15% of my cpu.
> 
> I'm reading this discussion and I'm very amazed that you and Andreas 
> don't see the performance issue with Plasma. As I said in my blog, I 
> have serious problems with it, and I have no idea what can be wrong. 
> The CPU is fast, Opteron dual core, the graphics card is not that fast, 
> but should be enough (NVidia FX5500, with the binay driver). I tried 
> with or without KWin, with or without composite extension enabled, 
> still just moving the mouse over a taskbar button, or moving a plasma 
> applet or right clicking on the desktop gives me high CPU load (60-100% 
> combined plasma + xorg). The resolution is 1600x1200 plus a 800x600 
> separate screen for TV out.
> I even tried to disabled the wallpaper as you suggested in a BR, but it 
> still showed up.
> 
> Andras
> 

Are you building Qt in debug mode or release mode?