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 1ODukR-0001sD-4Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:28:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C197EE07E6; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.oversi.com (oversrv1.oversi.com [209.88.189.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C803E07E6 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 07:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.2.2.28] (unknown [10.2.2.28]) by mail.oversi.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 427B55DACB5 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 10:27:42 +0300 (IDT) Message-ID: <4BF0EFEE.1030109@oversi.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:27:42 +0300 From: Amit Dor-Shifer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6) References: <4BEA9E3B.7050809@oversi.com> <4BEBD2D3.1060800@oversi.com> <4BEFA8DF.2000608@oversi.com> <4BF0E565.9080700@oversi.com> In-Reply-To: <4BF0E565.9080700@oversi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2f9e25ca-7685-4248-bdd7-7d07dfef9654 X-Archives-Hash: 5090210e62a4acf62e8e89d2bc35b75a One other thing: # hal-device|grep -C 10 \,ru net.linux.ifindex = 1 (0x1) (int) 23: udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input' linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int) linux.subsystem = 'input' (string) input.device = '/dev/input/event2' (string) input.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard' (string) info.addons.singleton = { 'hald-addon-input' } (string list) input.xkb.rules = 'xorg' (string) * input.xkb.model = 'pc104' (string) input.xkb.layout = 'en_US,ru' (string) input.xkb.variant = ',winkeys' (string) input.x11_driver = 'evdev' (string)* info.subsystem = 'input' (string) input.originating_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port' (string) info.product = 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard' (string) info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input' (string) linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2/event2' (string) info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port' (string) input.xkb.options = 'grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll' (string) info.category = 'input' (string) Perhaps HAL is responsible for generating the log messages? Amit On 05/17/10 09:42, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: > # print modification TSs, to verify log refers to said conf file > # stat -c %y /etc/X11/xorg.conf /var/log/Xorg.0.log > 2010-05-16 11:01:33.231512534 +0300 > 2010-05-16 12:23:02.502995953 +0300 > > > On 05/16/10 22:15, walt wrote: >> On 05/16/2010 01:12 AM, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: >>> >>> >> >>> Explicitly setting Driver to "evdev" (to both mouse and keyboard >>> sections) doesn't >> > fix the unexplained messages in Xorg.0.log. At least X manages to >> start, though. >> >> I'm expecting that your newest Xorg log will be different from the >> earlier ones. >> Which messages do you mean? > > (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev" > (**) Option "xkb_model" "pc104" > (**) Option "xkb_layout" "en_US,ru" > (**) Option "xkb_variant" ",winkeys" > (**) Option "xkb_options" "grp:shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll" > > > That quite the same as those I had in the beginning. >> >>> I'm now noticing another problem: X's CPU usage sky-rockets when >>> using input devices. >> > Especially mouse: If I move my pointer around the screen, hovering >> over some windows >> > in the process, I get >50% CPU in 'top'. >> >> I've never seen that before. Does hovering over xev print any messages? >> >> > Well, I'm less inclined to think now that X is responsible for the > high CPU load. I wasn't too knowledgeable about the relationships > between X and its clients when I made my initial assumption. It was > more like "I startx + I move mouse + CPU shoots-up => it's X". > > Looks more like kde is rocking my CPU. Indeed, xev doesn't print > anything while I'm generating high CPU with mouse movements. Also, I > had a notion twm didn't exhibit the phenomenon as long as I didn't > execute any kde apps. But I'm not 100% sure about the latter experiment. > > I'm runing KDE 3.5.10. > > Amit