Performance Issues

[James Jones]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 11:27 am, Carsten Otto wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 09:14:14PM +0200, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > You do realise that the distributed.net client is taking up 45%
> > of your CPU time, right?
>
> Yes, I do. The client only uses CPU cycles if no other process
> needs them. I had no problems in the last few years. Because I
> have two cores, 50% are used by X and the other 50% are more or
> less free. Nevertheless, 50% for X is full load on one core and
> causes lag.
>
> Thanks for your help,

I can reproduce the problems you are running into here using the 
8178 nvidia driver as well.  Our next driver should address this 
issue.  Stay tuned.

Thanks,
-James Jones