Profiling X, KDE, KWin and friends...

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 12:12 +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Fedora 10 on my old Thinkpad R50e, which has a Pentium M
> and an intel 855GM graphics card and I'm not happy with the
> performance of KDE, Kwin, Xserver and al. where sometimes, I can
> clearly see a given window getting its background cleared and its
> content redrawn slowly. I remember I didn't have annoying artifacts
> when I was running Windows, three years ago on the same machine. I
> don't have composition enabled or any fancy thing in my KDE setup. So
> basically, I'm asking if you guys know about any profiling tool that
> would enable me to see where the system is spending its time,
> especially when rendering the desktop.

I'm fairly sure performance regressions are one of the known issues with
older Intel chips (pre-i915, basically) on the newer versions of the
intel driver, so you may want to check redhat and freedesktop bugzillas
first to see if anyone's reported similar problems.
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