Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:27:07 +0300 From: Vladimir Grebenschikov <vova@fbsd.ru> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>, freebsd-gnome <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GNOME 2.22 has been released! Message-ID: <1206602827.1534.11.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20080326202355.8553D4500E@ptavv.es.net> References: <20080326202355.8553D4500E@ptavv.es.net>
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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
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