From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 21:22:04 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F046716A420 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:22:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7FE13C448 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:22:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) (SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:11:47 -0500 id 00056441.474B3693.0000633B Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:11:18 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: Pieter de Goeje Message-Id: <20071126161118.842e05bb.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <200711262146.55451.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <20071126153809.98ff55b4.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <200711262146.55451.pieter@degoeje.nl> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance problems after upgrade from xorg 7.2 -> 7.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:22:05 -0000 In response to Pieter de Goeje : > On Monday 26 November 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > > I upgraded my ports over the holiday, and I'm having a number > > of problems with xorg. I'll address them one at a time, in > > order of most problematic ... > > > > Right now, the worst is the lousy performance. Using the exact > > same xorg.conf that I had in 7.2, the performance of window > > resizes is terrible. I had no problems with this in 7.2. > > > > For example, if I open a terminal window, then hit the maximize > > button, it takes almost 3 seconds to maximize it. Again xorg > > 7.2 didn't have this problem. Is there some new config option > > in 7.3 that I need to enable? I'm not seeing performance > > problems anywhere else that I can find (moving windows around, > > for example, seems to work fine). > > > > Could it be my wm (xfce4) ... as I upgraded it at the same time? [snip] > Some components of xfce have trouble with the composite extension, which is > enabled by default in 7.3. > Add the following section to xorg.conf to fix: > > Section "Extensions" > Option "Composite" "Disable" > EndSection > > Hope this helps, It absolutely solved the problem. Thanks! -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@collaborativefusion.com Phone: 412-422-3463x4023