X Server performance issues
I know there's going to be a lot of theory thrown around here, but here's my issue. I've got a user with 5 displays hooked up to his box. 4 are on a quad head Nvidia. The 5th is some other PCI card I picked up at CompUSA. The 5th monitor has been in use for months now. There's been some added weight to the X-Server though, and it's noticeable.
Almost all applications are run remotely from a server and exported DISPLAY'ed on the client. The X process spikes up to 50% sometimes, which is causing me to be yelled at. The machine is a dual processor 3Ghz w/ a gig of memory running XFree86 v 4.3.0-r7 and KDE 3.3.0. All KDE GUI effects are turned off, and (I think) it's running in 16-bit color depth. The displays are at either 1920x1600 or 1600x1200 depending on the monitor.
I've cut all that can be cut. If the problem persists, I think my options are:
-Try Xorg
-Try Gnome
I just can't see any of the others offering that drastic of a performance.
Considering it'll take me all day to compile these (it's gentoo box) I'd be very glad to hear some other tweaks that might help. One thing would be if the 2nd graphics card which is only supporting one monitor is a cheesy card, could it hold back the other more powered card?
Thanks.
Last edited by GaijinPunch; 10-02-2005 at 09:42 PM.
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