Hi, I am reporting this here as the developer of KStars suggested that the problem is probably in X. In short, when KStars is runing it is very slow and when checking which process is causing this it is X. The KDE bug report with more info can be found here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83685
I just installed KDE 3.3.0 final and also XOrg 6.8.1 final and the problem is still here. I also tried changing from Radeon 9600 XT (which doesn't have hardware accel for Render) to Radeon 8500 (which should have HW accell). But things are still not good and X still starts usinf a lot of CPU when runing KStars.
There is some suspicion that the bug is in kstars.
Whats the status of this bug using a current xorg? Perhaps some profiling of KStars is in place?
I've also tested this application and get quite high CPU usage but those that qualify it as a bug? I would like to close this one as a NOTABUG. Anyone against?
This bug is not caused by X itself but by a poorly coded program. Closing.
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