Noticably slower performance

[daniel4230877]

In my Gentoo installation I'm getting noticably slower performance than I did when I used Arch Linux. I have a quad core intel i7 and 16 GB ram, my computer should not be this slow. KWin desktop effects run slow, when I run the Higan emulator, I only get 20 FPS or so. I used to get 60 FPS on Arch. My system boots slower than it did on Arch as well. What can I do to get the performance that I used to get in Arch?

[The Doctor]

With kde, the semantic desktop is usually the culprit of poor performance. You can disable it either with the use flag ,which may go away soon unfortunately, or using the system settings to disable nepomuk. It should be easy to find. Also, try playing with how the desktop effects are displayed. Arch may have done it differently and there can be a big difference between the options in terms of performance.

For boot times, there are a few tricks you can try, but two general things you can look at are 1) are you starting unnecessary services? 2) are you using an initramfs? If you used genkernel, you may be stuck with suboptimal options that are slowing down your graphics and due to the nature of using an initramfs your boot.

The best solution to compiling a kernel I have found is to use http://kernel-seeds.org/. Its minimal and it will not require an initramfs to boot which will cut off a good deal of time.
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[daniel4230877]

[daniel4230877]

What I did for the higan issue was used the balanced profile rather than the accurate one. For some reason, on Gentoo it doesn't run at full speed but balanced works perfectly with every game I tested. I was also able to get everything else working by adding VIDEO_CARDS="intel nvidia" because I'm using bumblebee.

Somehow I forgot that... I have no clue how. But adding that and emerging world with new use flags fixed it.

[rg.viza]