From: Amit Dor-Shifer <amitds@oversi.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6)
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 17:38:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BF154E6.3000407@oversi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BF0E565.9080700@oversi.com>
On 05/17/10 09:42, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:
> 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
a. I had the "nv" driver instead of the "nvidia" driver loaded.
b. openGL was assigned to xorg. 'eselect opengl set' to nvidia fixed that.
X still goes as high as 30%. Still looks suspicious, but more acceptable.
Amit
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-17 14:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-12 12:25 [gentoo-user] xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline Amit Dor-Shifer
2010-05-12 21:54 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-05-13 10:22 ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " Amit Dor-Shifer
2010-05-13 21:47 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-05-16 8:12 ` [gentoo-user] X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6) (was: xorg-server: Pressing 'down'/'right ctrl' keys yields newline) Amit Dor-Shifer
2010-05-16 19:15 ` [gentoo-user] Re: X hoggs CPU (xorg-server-1.7.6) walt
2010-05-17 6:42 ` Amit Dor-Shifer
2010-05-17 7:27 ` Amit Dor-Shifer
2010-05-17 14:38 ` Amit Dor-Shifer [this message]
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