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Re: Slow system and switching tabs on google chome



On 2012-05-16 14:14 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:

> On Tue, 15 May 2012 18:09:57 -0500, Odair wrote in message 
> <[🔎] CADYDv-AVZ5mwrGigCchXeGSr7D+Zq6V=dyi_0xhTKcRZg3xx4A@mail.gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> After an update at 20-05-2012, my system is slow down specialy
>> when I switch tabs 
>
> ..how _many_ tabs? ;o)  What happens when you kill flash?
> (Killing flash can be done both with chromium's own "task manager"
> or with htop, hit "t" to get the threaded view, "F3" and "flash" 
> to find the cpu or ram hogs, paint them yellow thespace bar and 
> kill'em with "k", arrow up to "9" if you wanna "genocide" it.)
>
>> on Google Chrome, even Chromium, the graphics
>> efects also get down speed specialy kde-window-back effect.
>
> ..debug ideas he should try, anyone?
>
>> I'm using Debian Wheezy i386, with Nvidia GeForce 6200
>
> ..this is old enough to have been endlifed by Nvidea.

The hardware may be EOL'ed, but the current driver should still work.

> ..try it with the nouveau driver, and with the nvidea-legacy 
> drivers.

FWIW, nouveau only works correctly if you downgrade libcairo to 1.10.x
(available from snapshot.debian.org or in squeeze-backports), see bug
#666468¹.

>> and the
>> latest propietary driver, also I was updated the driver from version
>> 290 to 295. (it's maybe a bug of new libcairo?)
>
> ..maybe.  Guys?

The 295.40 driver suffers from performance regressions on GeForce
6xxx/7xxx, see #668854².  Upgrading to 295.49 in unstable should help.

Cheers,
       Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/666468
² http://bugs.debian.org/668854


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