From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HDpEx-00002r-Ti for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:49:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l14LlqbT012498; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 21:47:52 GMT Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l14Lg574005403 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 21:42:06 GMT Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l14Lg48H019998 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:42:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l14Lg4AX023772 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:42:04 -0500 (EST) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 5EB0ED36F; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:43:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 16:43:24 -0500 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox Message-ID: <20070204214324.GA21455@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20070204183525.GA28281@princeton.edu> <200702042222.17900.rudmer.van.dijk@casema.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200702042222.17900.rudmer.van.dijk@casema.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Archives-Salt: 39dcbba6-4ffc-4e8c-b54f-7a5b3cd28f6f X-Archives-Hash: 5e6d4694beca958273d9feb25bb81d56 On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:22:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Rudmer van Dijk squawked: > are you sure this is only with firefox? so far this is the only app that I observed it with. xterm/aterm were left open for hours, a few large image editing jobs were done with gimp. Abiword and acroread I only had open for shorter periods of time (several minutes tops) so I cannot say with absolutely certainty that they don't cause the same behaviour. But firefox really stood out since almost every operation on it (starting it, clicking a link, get a new blank tab opened, pasting in a link, etc.) causes the CPU spike. > I have noticed this behavior too but due to lack of time I have reverted to > use xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 for me it looked like every application triggered a > cpu load of >90% by X. only I normally have a firefox window open all the > time... Right, on my stable box everything works like a charm. And I think they even improved the firefox memory leak problem between 1.5.x and 2.0.x, since now I can leave a dozen tabs open for a week or two without OOM killer kicking in. > have you tried a rebuild of firefox _after_ installation of then new xorg > packages? maybe that will solve the problem. Yes, actually, just now I tried both 2.0.0.1 and 2.0.0.1-r2, so it is probably a problem with xorg. Since you are also observing the problem, I'll try reverting to a lower version of xorg-server and see. Thanks, W -- "I'm going to do this in more stupid fashion in a moment." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 58 days, 19:55 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list