From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 07:27:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C426106564A; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:27:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vova@sw.ru) Received: from relay.sw.ru (mailhub.sw.ru [195.214.232.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E40658FC12; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:27:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vova@sw.ru) Received: from vbook.fbsd.ru ([10.30.1.111]) (authenticated bits=0) by relay.sw.ru (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m2R7R89j010538 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:27:10 +0300 (MSK) Received: from vova by vbook.fbsd.ru with local (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JemVw-0005OT-OX; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:27:08 +0300 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov To: Kevin Oberman In-Reply-To: <20080326202355.8553D4500E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20080326202355.8553D4500E@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: SWsoft Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:27:07 +0300 Message-Id: <1206602827.1534.11.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Sender: Vladimir Grebenschikov Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , freebsd-gnome Subject: Re: GNOME 2.22 has been released! X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: vova@fbsd.ru List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:27:33 -0000 On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 13:23 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > One more problem with recent Gnome - Xorg now all time eats CPU > > > 10-30% constantly. > > > > > > Exiting from all applications lowers that numbers, but even > several > > > percents of CPU for idle system is too much. > > > > > > Any ideas why it may happens and how to cure ? > > > > No idea. This I have not noticed. There was some recent work that > went > > into xorg-server to handle a jerky mouse problem. Perhaps that is > > contributing to your CPU problem. > > The "jerky mouse" fix should reduce CPU time, not increase it, as I > think it eliminates the huge number of gettimeofday calls (expensive > in > FreeBSD) and replaces them with cheap call (which I forget) as the > mouse > was only using it to tell that time was passing and does not care what > time it is. > > On my system (with hald not running), I see well under 1% cpu use by > xorg. > > Note that some apps can really make xorg busy. Any flash running? > Firefox (even ignoring flash) seems to do things that cause xorg > utilization to go way up for certain operations. No flash, evolution, eclipse, firefox (exiting from here does not change situation greatly). But problem happens time to time. I'll try to find what software causing Xorg to eat CPU when it happens next time. -- Vladimir B. Grebenschikov vova@fbsd.ru