Re: XOrg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-5bpo2 eats up all CPU

[Jose de Zarate <jzarate@havet.es>]

this may or may not be related:
Since the begining, firefox is a 'memory eater'. I've had it since its 
first releases, and not always with a enough-ram-memory computer (I 
started using it with 256). And it's always the same. Everything goes 
smooth at the beginning, -just if it had some bug on the "garbage 
collection"-, but with time it ends up putting the computer on its knees.

Since I've got now 1Gb RAM, I don't apreciate this. Maybe it's better 
with new releases, but I bet not.

Michael Koch wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:17:26PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > it has happened frequently that Xorg eats up nearly all CPU, and the
> > system gets considerable slower (but is still very well usable):
> >
> > top - 14:13:06 up  4:38,  1 user,  load average: 1.00, 1.02, 1.06
> > Tasks:  99 total,   2 running,  97 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > Cpu(s):  2.0% us, 98.0% sy,  0.0% ni,  0.0% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
> > Mem:   1035672k total,   951876k used,    83796k free,   120284k buffers
> > Swap:  1005440k total,      144k used,  1005296k free,   401916k cached
> >
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                                   
> >  5394 root      25   0  169m  35m 4156 R 99.6  3.5  91:01.25 Xorg          
> >
> > When I use an other application, Xorg's CPU usage sometimes drops a
> > little, but still nothing is idle.  I think this happens at least since
> > this version maybe earlier.  I first attributed it to an xvnc session
> > which was mostly running, but now I found it a couple of times without
> > any remote desktop application.
> >
> > The X processes running are Firefox, GNU Emacs, KOrganizer, a couple of
> > rxvt's, xconsole and sometimes others (e.g. Mathematica, or a home-brewn
> > Windows application using wine), but I cannot see any connection to
> > using them.
> >
> > Has anybody else experienced similar behavior?  What other information
> > would be useful?  Ah, well, I just attach my xorg.conf in case anybody
> > can interpret this.
> >     
>
> I have seen similar problems on my laptop. I cant prove it but I always
> guessed its firefox related. I use Firefox form sarge.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
>