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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GX2We-0004Jz-H4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:19:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k99LHeSt016428; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:17:40 GMT Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k99LDVbl012755 for ; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 21:13:31 GMT Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.105.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 452849D500120B8B for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:13:31 +0200 Message-ID: <452AD73D.3060605@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:11:57 +0000 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061003) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Xorg 7.0+composite+radeon OSS drivers+radeon9200se : X cpu usage sometimes rockets to > 80% Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d6900306-ac4c-41e7-aae1-cd426ad1db48 X-Archives-Hash: 068802be1f177ab3cf60a68249e061b0 Hi, Today I tried to enable the composite extension on my Xorg. Nice eye candy :) and everything works pretty good. The only problem is that sometimes the CPU usage shots to > 80% for intervals of 20-60 minutes (at pretty random intervals, but it seems to me that switching desktops a lot helps the bug to come out) and then quietly settles out. If I kill xcompmgr the CPU usage instantly comes down to almost zero. Restarting composite makes the CPU usage rise again to something like 10-20% (it depends), quite high but bearable. I should be using a fully hw-accelerated Xorg, however. I have an ATI Radeon 9200se card with the following options: [...] Section "Device" #VideoRam 131072 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate Identifier "** ATI Radeon (generic) [radeon]" Driver "radeon" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "AGPMode" "8" Option "AGPFastWrite" "1" Option "BackingStore" "true" EndSection [...] that, according to http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Xorg_X11_and_Transparency , should give most acceleration for my card. What seems strange to me is that the problem happens at random (a misconfiguration should fit better a constant high CPU usage). I am using latest stable 7.0 Xorg. Any idea to help me understand what the problem can be? Thanks, m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list