Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:29:52 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <mike.jeays@rogers.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow xorg after upgrade Message-ID: <89041d39-2250-c16a-6684-53143b398655@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1710172033590.66845@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1710172033590.66845@tripel.monochrome.org>
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On 17-10-17 09:09 PM, Chris Hill wrote: > Hello list, > > Two days ago I had to upgrade xorg (long story). Since then, it seems > that text entry is laggy, as if the xterm - or any application, for > that matter - can't keep up with my typing. It feels like the old days > of typing on an ASR-33; there is a lag of less than one second between > typing a character and it appearing on screen. Sometimes when text > draws, I see a moment of raster-looking junk. This is especially > visible in text that updates from a program, such as the in-progress > statistics from fetch. Or even when pasting text via middle-click. Or > even when moving the cursor with the arrow keys while writing this email. > > Is this just an example of new software being more more bloated? It > seems to me that under the old regime things were snappy-quick. > > Before: xorg-7.7_1 > After: xorg-7.7_3 > > Both: fvwm-2.6.5_7 > > Both: > $ uname -mriKv 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 #0: Mon Oct > 24 18:49:24 UTC 2016 > root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > GENERIC 1003000 > > Thank you. > Unless it is a very low-spec machine, this sounds completely abnormal, and due to some kind of software configuration error. I would not expect to notice any difference between two fairly recent versions of xorg
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