* [gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox
@ 2007-02-04 18:35 99% Willie Wong
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From: Willie Wong @ 2007-02-04 18:35 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Short time line of what happened:
On January 28, I was doing some playing around with eye-candy on my X
desktop, and started running animations (from Xscreensaver) as by
desktop background. At the same time I was browsing the internet using
firefox-2.0.0.1. The operation of the desktop was smooth and CPU usage
hardly ever went above 30% (sporadic spikes when I load new pages). I
was monitoring the CPU use because I want to make sure that the
eye-candy won't affect day-to-day operation of the desktop.
On January 29, I upgrade firefox from 2.0.0.1 to 2.0.0.1-r2. (My box
is on ~x86)
I don't remember whether the web browsing experience is any different.
Since I wasn't paying attention.
On Febuary 2nd, I upgrade xorg from 7.1 to 7.2, which also pulled in
an upgrade for xorg-server, libXdamage, and other things.
Starting yesterday (the 3rd of Feb), I noticed lock-ups when ever
firefox is open. At first I thought it was the fault of the animated
background, but then I found out that it still happened if I started a
no-frills, barebone fvwm session. I tried almost all of my other X
applications, and none of them had these behaviour (mplayer, inkscape,
gimp, abiword included).
When I start firefox, the cpu use for X shots up to 90+ percent (for
X, not for firefox) for several minutes, and everytime I open a new
tab X cpu use goes up to 90+ percent for several minutes, during which
firefox is completely unresponsive, and xterms that I opened have a
lag of round 0.5 - 2 seconds between keypress and character appearing
on screen.
Basically, firefox would, every now and then, cause my entire desktop
to seize up for minutes at a time.
I took a look at b.g.o., and the closest thing I found was a case
where the solution was to change to a sane set of CFLAGs an to unmerge
the known-to-be-unstable gplflash?? (can't remember the name, an OSS
attempt at reproducing flash, was removed from portage recently,
possibly because the adobe takeover of flashplayer).
I don't even know if this is actually a bug or some stupid
misconfiguration on my part. Any ideas of what I can check before I
possibly make an ass of myself on b.g.o. by having a problem that I
don't really know how to describe well.
Thanks,
W
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as if it's only purpose in life was to demonstrate how
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