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IMCHillen

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Registered: 2010-01-08

Posts: 10

Performance issues, possibly video.

My computer is by no means new (p4 2.4, 2GB, 128MB AGP video), however, I get particularly crappy performance through most simple tasks. Scrolling in any browswer is SUPER choppy (CPU usage of browser & Xorg spikes when scrolling). Window performance is decent but not as good as it probably should be. Even things like opening & switching tabs lags 1-2 seconds. Any ideas on narrowing & fixing this issue? (NVIDIA card, base xorg.conf + nvidia-xconfig)

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Re: Performance issues, possibly video.

It's a good idea to give more information than 'it's nvidia card' and 'I ran nvidia-xconfig', if you expect people to help you. You need to give people informations they can work with. Start with;

Info video card;

lspci |grep VGA

Info driver;

dmesg |grep NVIDIA
glxinfo | grep direct

Info xorg.conf;

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Do also

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While doing tasks on your PC, to see if there's an app that eating all your resources or using your CPU insanly.

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IMCHillen

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Registered: 2010-01-08

Posts: 10

Re: Performance issues, possibly video.

lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 A-LE] (rev a1)
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dmesg | grep NVIDIA
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  195.36.15  Thu Mar 11 21:41:46 PST 2010
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cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder75)  Fri Mar 12 01:42:27 PST 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath      "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dri2"
    Load           "record"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "extmod"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName      "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Card0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName      "NV44 [GeForce 6200 A-LE]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Card0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection
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Idle is fine, only abnormality is the spike when scrolling that I mentioned in the original post, Xorg spikes when moving windows and things as well.
32-bit btw.