From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Oct 18 02:33:02 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E190E4D63F for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 02:33:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from nm23-vm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm23-vm5.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.245]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 69F3466AB6 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 02:33:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rogers.com; s=s2048; t=1508293792; bh=AtZ2xraIu0KGGFCMnMB0A+EJ+AVlUDgm5U/hXptgaog=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=DUIL4nw7dpqniR+33gGd/+kfZK/gMPrt9EXTJLIZNG3o4XMUWaKnRU4SYnptNNBqFJ/jz2clB16AQu5c3EgEjDaQ1TJBACXoiFjohSJNRs5KabbWIZ4aOXVXedsrPNU3viMjKCe+aT13CvoLqtkuUbEVbY80kJn0CfLrezU19krJbKTWFaCcW5xZSJSOJwtgO6JsSjghPx8fCgFFua0w8HVSsqEsOVxsEL/8bHHNnT+fBE/CvszVCk1S1jFUWAXx92cYxG34g1X8OG8XEoSoVRSh9R+BGrSdOYnQeCT38nibi8fB9POLq0cXALdryqwUl0X85VsXEtvDW5ha+jYaKQ== Received: from [98.138.100.117] by nm23.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Oct 2017 02:29:52 -0000 Received: from [98.138.84.47] by tm108.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Oct 2017 02:29:52 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp115.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Oct 2017 02:29:52 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 897796.49053.bm@smtp115.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: S83IGHMVM1k3yauPGl7qJrqXQA.hiIM0LXPOvhW3UL9OTVo PlDj21T2ptdsg2aRx_uYv.iAxIi_34dlyxKGKHn9U3.ghaw45O_hU7LJXSgq iOgEw408YmCiScFuRHnShyiG3vme_yFKR6kuk74gVoBVRGWXn8wIdaxVuW4g 1CXB.Ue9cGOCZTtk822X5XjSSxNpOtv3wJ.i4yKDw1wCIdkmciq2RzWNsB0V yJX41hPgGxghLqoGUepMnF5H0a2JA4LuukJzxr5P738rAIhAqac2EjRgqfbK iv1PTaVGOK2wTGFLZwrydHfCj5vqs0bcR3uka0QadWFWGTz_VftzlwpzXcQU sX4KuhE5L3si1eZnTrwAzzwgYwUhdNxcCWv0.mQ36WeP3h8V0tqRIojYtbu. GsRNaUysLIoEwm.nIF6NZECtlPjf5VoebtDflgYq27ImFX4d2Ybcdp_GPvjd T2_dGF64q2EF8nNeGwWdbUHVATpR9zyTrUZ3DfS8UKODNsnI2.GSVucsBHdW 9V3S0hBb. X-Yahoo-SMTP: N82WFx6swBBjwcHWPFR2CGt6udzA8RPrA.xm0enFFXaK2g-- Subject: Re: Slow xorg after upgrade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: Mike Jeays Message-ID: <89041d39-2250-c16a-6684-53143b398655@rogers.com> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:29:52 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 02:33:02 -0000 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