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jakub

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Registered: 2013-09-14

Posts: 151

Conky affects video performance while refreshig itself?

Hi,

today I've installed conky and configured it to run with some basic configuration fond here http://conky.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html.
Happy with new fancy stuff installed on my system I've ran VLC to watch some movie. Unfortunately it came out that conky - while refreshing itself - affects video performance really badly. So badly that some stuttering on VLC is visible. In other words playback is no more smooth.

But just to have a proof I checked glxgears. Having conky turned on I had something like 40 FPS less (lack of smooth animation every time conky was refreshing its status was also easy to notice).

So - is just mine configuration broken or it's conky's fault? I don't believe that no one noticed this problem before.
I have nVidia Quadro NVS 140M and using nvidia-304xx drivers.

Last edited by jakub (2014-11-03 23:58:30)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Conky affects video performance while refreshig itself?

that shouldn't happen, unless maybe if you ran it on really slow system with no gfx acceleration whatsoever.
Or if you were running some heavy script every time conky refreshes.

It might be a good idea to post the actual config you're using..