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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




      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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