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Re: XFree86 is eating my CPU!



On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:55:58 -0500 Robert Tilley <tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> My system has seemed a bit sluggish lately and gkrellm shows over 50% CPU 
> utilization.  When I do a "top", the XFree86 process is shown to consume over 
> 50% of available CPU cycles.
> 
> This never happens in other window managers, so I believe it to be a KDE 
> problem.  With Blackbox I never go above 1-2%.
> 
> This only began occuring recently (less than 1 month ago) and persists, 
> despite upgrading my machine nightly.  Can anyone offer some insight?

Anti-aliased fonts.  Had that same problem last year (when using
Mandrake).  Disabled AA fonts and response went back to normal.

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