Arch Linux

jka

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Registered: 2012-02-22

Posts: 4

awesome wm SLOW performance

I've just installed arch linux with awesome wm and performance is terribly slow
here is the snapshot of htop

$ uname -r
3.3.7-1-ARCH

$ awesome -v       
awesome v3.4.11 (Pickapart)

$ Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.11.4

$ pacman -Ss cairo
extra/cairo 1.12.2-1 [installed]

also I am using catalyst for my Radeon HD 6370m ( https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AT … repository )

anyone knows what the problem can be?

UPDATE this happens sometimes

Last edited by jka (2012-05-25 12:13:05)

Army

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1,784

Re: awesome wm SLOW performance

Have you tried to run the oss ati video driver (xf86-video-ati)? Could be, that there's something wrong with catalyst, this driver is just crap..

jka

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Registered: 2012-02-22

Posts: 4

Re: awesome wm SLOW performance

xf86-video-ati is the same crap

The fact is that I'm using arch linux about 6 month and this problem appeared 2 weeks ago. So I think that some package is buggy

tomek22

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Registered: 2012-05-28

Posts: 1

Re: awesome wm SLOW performance

I started experiencing poor performance at about the same time and I have a NVIDIA graphics card.

I'm using awesome-git and Xorg 1.12.1.092

X server freezes for about 2-7 seconds when I switch between tags. Does anyone else have a similar problem?

xhc

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Registered: 2012-02-01

Posts: 113

Re: awesome wm SLOW performance

nvidia : nouveau or nvidia driver + awesome stable + xorg stable repo = no problem with performance or speed

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Garrik Dimble

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 10

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Re: awesome wm SLOW performance

Same thing here on both my computers :
1/ nvidia driver plus xorg and awesome from the main repos
2/ xf86-video-ati driver and xorg and awesome from the main repos

Awesome was insanely slow (takes more than 3s for le smallest operation).

I removed my mocp widget from my rc.lua and it fixed the problem.
Hope, this helps