From kdevelop Sat Aug 27 12:39:39 2011 From: Gunther Piez Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:39:39 +0000 To: kdevelop Subject: Re: Slowness Message-Id: <4E58E58B.3030802 () web ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdevelop&m=131444889124199 On 27.08.2011 00:17, Ciprian Ciubotariu wrote: > I have had the same problem, but with all the KDE applications. Those > that have more controls seem to get the hit first though. At the same > time, no-KDE apps (emacs for instance) was speedy as usual. > > >From some talks on irc, bug lists, mailing lists and forums, it seems it > was related to the video drivers, leaking kwin effects or some similar > problems. However, speaking to KDE developers it seems most don't leave > computers on for more days, so this may take a while to get fixed. > > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 23:58 +0300, Leon Pollak wrote: >> On Friday 26 August 2011 10:10:10 Esben Mose Hansen wrote: >>> On 08/25/2011 01:20 PM, Leon Pollak wrote: >>>> After some time of kde-kdevelop running (sometimes 15-20hours, sometimes >>>> after 0.5h), kdevelop becomes too slow: moving in the text suffers from >>>> 1-2s delays, source file switching is very slow, moving between 'debug' >>>> and 'code' working sets is VERY slow, etc. >>>> >>>> Restart of the kdevelop does not solve the issue, but restart of the >>>> whole computer does... till the next time it appears...:-( >>> Does turning off compositor (default Alt-Ctrl-F12) help? >> WOW!!! It seems to help, although I do not know what I did with that - google >> does not provide clear enough (for me) description. >> >> So, I pressed Alt-Ctrl-F12 and received the black screen with blinking cursor, >> which was expected...:-) >> Then, I pressed Alt-Ctrl-F1 to return to the graphic screen, but now kdevelop >> seems to work fast back!! >> >> What does it mean? How does it work? >> Thanks a lot ahead for clarification!!! >> And a lot of saved time and nerves!!! I have suffered this problem too in the past. I remember a thread in the nvidia forums related to this. Possibly a memory leak or memory fragmenting in the X server. But since the I changed my hardware and it's gone for now... BTW, you are talking about two different things: Turning off compositing is Shift-Alt-F12, while switching to a console is Ctrl-Alt-F12. - Gunther _______________________________________________ kdevelop mailing list kdevelop@kdevelop.org https://barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de/mailman/listinfo/kdevelop