From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N4JWg-00020f-HF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:22:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0986E0920; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:22:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f222.google.com (mail-ew0-f222.google.com [209.85.219.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0092E0920 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:22:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy22 with SMTP id 22so305901ewy.14 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:22:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=S5JUUUV0kgnsVuzD+3Jb5P0b/2OZAzGqcAHi6EcYmnw=; b=C6GAuVHeF6TmKPn9yruQ5vtpuxxQkegMv3t/a9OwpYmUeZJpsevzZcOQlG4DERX249 KR3HgOH6THADge+B1e3GsStJ17rv4H05dbv01no4qsqy4vYU1pI//9T6wzTqtIuDg1DV ZdwuxV/ygNLJasDXTFHX1sAROH49gb81coPM4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ZFlCXFy4FS8L/P5DgjTSE7kXYnoWBg6QSmFwa6D44njP8EgLMyf/NliMPeYFqlJC0S KRMsE6uzR8Sh+1EK8Vs5pO5COKGyJ1fJ9B/RnybUpl6UQLVXTsNpasoVejc4wfDg727s eFzgaoCGEamd6rToFE+1Nsr6Vfm19E0tFqMF4= Received: by 10.216.93.12 with SMTP id k12mr2098046wef.195.1257016931940; Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-40-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm11742456eya.4.2009.10.31.12.22.10 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:22:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg slow after upgrade Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:21:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-zen5; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4ae9603cd15b09.28608495@wp.pl> <4AEC5906.3020001@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AEC5906.3020001@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910312121.10398.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b4cb52b3-a49b-462d-88da-4f68a35d3cb6 X-Archives-Hash: 8876d19a1718952fc09212ab931998b0 On Saturday 31 October 2009 17:34:30 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Krzysztof Poc wrote: > > Hello I've recently upgraded my system and I found that Xorg redraws the > > screen > > very slowly. "top" shows me that "X" process takes up around 95% of the > > CPU while I have Intel Core 2 Duo. > > > > What's wrong with my system ? > > > > I have the following installed: > > kernel 2.6.30.7 #3 SMP (without PAE) > > xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 > > xorg-x11-7.4-r1 > > xf86-video-intel-2.8.1 > > > > I've also successfully migrated to X.org Server 1.6 and libxcb 1.4 as > > written > > in official gentoo documentation. > > > > great thanks for any indications > > I am using > > kernel 2.6.30.9 i686 > xorg-server 1.6.3.901-r2 > xorg-x11 7.4-r1 > xf86-video-intel 2.8.1 > hal 0.5.12_rc1-r8 > > Also have some unresolved issues with windowmaker-0.92.0-r8 not > accepting background images on workspaces, and glxgears results lower > (by half) than I had with xorg-server-1.5: > > -> glxgears > 2095 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.739 FPS > 1800 frames in 5.0 seconds = 359.967 FPS > 1881 frames in 5.0 seconds = 376.091 FPS > 2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.294 FPS > 2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.286 FPS > 1887 frames in 5.0 seconds = 377.349 FPS > 1891 frames in 5.0 seconds = 378.111 FPS > 1911 frames in 5.0 seconds = 382.009 FPS Are either of you using KDE-4? I get this too, it's caused by plasma-desktop (top says it's 35% cpu) which makes X block on some IO (100% of one cpu). Killing and starting plasma-desktop fixes it for me. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com