Re: Xorg eats my CPU
On 09/01/06, Paul Dwerryhouse <paul@dwerryhouse.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:21:08PM +0100, Kevin Glynn wrote:
> > I am running (up to date) Debian unstable on my laptop, it has a
> > Radeon IGP 340M graphics chip. For the last month or so I am seeing
> > the Xorg process gradually gobble up more and more CPU, up to 30/40%
> > and in some cases 99%.
>
> Yes, I see this too, and have seen it ever since unstable switched from
> xfree86 to Xorg.
>
> It happens periodically - the load average on my machine shoots up,
> stays high for ten or so minutes, and then gradually drops off again.
>
> This occurs on every machine I've got that is running Xorg. Two of them
> have ATI cards, but the third has an nVidia card.
>
> > But the big CPU problems are seen when I run mozilla-firefox, since
> > usually when I kill firefox Xorg recovers.
>
> I run galeon (rather than firefox), but it never seems to be
> particularly high in top's output when the problem happens.
>
firefox CPU utilisation doesn't get high for me either, but I noticed
that it was usually near the top of my other processes when I had the
problem. Killing firefox reduces Xorg back to normal, so it seems to
be tickling something.
It also seems to get worse when I browse certain sites, such as google reader.
cheers
k
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