I have the same problem with KDE with nvidia drivers - it seems worse
with the latest ones from rpmfusion, and worse in 4.5 compared to
4.4. (Not sure when the change came in, first betas of 4.5 seemed
fine).
There are a bunch of bug reports already (eg
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234463) - though there seem to be
multiple issues and a lot of noise in the bug reports. For me, turning
off the blur effect helps, but not much. On my laptop I have switched
to gnome for the moment as it gives me approx 50% more battery life in
normal use (OO Word + calc, kmail, firefox, amarok, R etc) than same
apps under kde. KDE apps under gnome are a pain though (you have to
start kmail twice to get akonadi running first, super slow scrolling
in akregator etc etc).
Nouveau didn't work well for me last time I tried, but will probably
make the jump to F14 and try again sometime soon.
sorry!
M.
2010/11/8 Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick(a)gmail.com>:
2010/11/8 Rex Dieter <rdieter(a)math.unl.edu>
>
> On 11/08/2010 03:02 AM, Chris Rouch wrote:
> > Over the weekend yum pulled in the newest version of kde for f13
> > (4.5.2 I think). Since I rebooted and logged in my laptop seems to
> > have the fan going most of the time. Gkrellm shows both CPUs are doing
> > something, and top confirms that kwin and plasma desktop are each
> > using between 10% and 30% CPU. For comparison on my f12 desktop at
> > work they use between 2 and 5% cpu. I don't know what the used before
> > the upgrade, but I do know the fan was usually off except when the
> > machine was loaded.
> >
> > This happens with only one window (firefox), and that only having a
> > couple of tabs open.
> >
> > Is this something I can change? If so, where do I need to look?
>
> Depends on a lot of things.
>
> What video driver is in use?
>
> What arch?
>
> Is flash installed, and any applets running in any of those flash tabs
> you mention?
>
> Are destkop effects enabled? Which effects? (blur in particular, is
> known to cause degraded performance/load with many driver combinations).
>
> -- Rex
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