I also notice that after a reboot, cycling through the tabs in konsole (by holding down the next or previous tab keys) is *extremely* fast, and redraws all the text in each virtual console as it goes, resulting in an extremely fast slideshow of the content of those consoles. After several hours of using the computer, if I do it again, it no longer redraws much of the text, as if the hardware acceleration of the text redrawing has slowed down.
I also notice that after a reboot, cycling through the tabs in konsole (by holding down the next or previous tab keys) is *extremely* fast, and redraws all the text in each virtual console as it goes, resulting in an extremely fast slideshow of the content of those consoles. After several hours of using the computer, if I do it again, it no longer redraws much of the text, as if the hardware acceleration of the text redrawing has slowed down.