Re: xserver cpu load on 2.6 kernels

[Alexei Chetroi <debian@lexa.uniflux-line.net>]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 06:56:06PM +0100, Martin Hauser wrote:
> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 18:56:06 +0100
> From: Martin Hauser <martin@alla.franken.de>
 [snip]
>  I'm running Debian testing on Acer travelmate 354 laptop. When running
> > on 2.4 kernels, cpu load is about 0% when windowmaker is loaded and
> > idle. But, when running kernel 2.6.9, wmcube and wmtop shows me, that
> > xfree86 eats about 23% of cpu when idle, and about 40-60% when moving
> > mouse pointer. What is wrong?
> > 
> 
> Hmm... this is now a mere guessing by me, but i had a similiar effect
> here on my IBM thinkpad. Could the Problem be related to some APM/ACPI
> interrupt stuff? For me was it as i first used the 2.6 series of the
> kernel with APM enabled instead of acpi, i would move the mouse and a
> second later it'd be out of sync and my cpu on max load.

  Thanks for info. For now I'm booting kernel with acpi=on. I'll try too
boot it with apm and pci=noacpi, but last time i've tried pci=noacpi on
2.4 kernel, my NIC didn't work.

  Thanks!

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Alexei Chetroi