Re: Xorg eats my CPU
On 09/01/06, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:21:08 +0100
> Kevin Glynn <kevin.glynn@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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%.
>
> I saw some of this behavior too. Also, big memory munching by Xorg. Finally switched away from metacity (still gdm) and that problem is GONE.
>
I hadn't thought of the window manager. I just tried to switch away
from metacity, but I didn't find a good replacement :-(
> >
> > Even X on its own seems a little sluggish, e.g. when I change windows
> > the gnome icons take a fraction of a second to appear in the new
> > window.
> >
> > But the big CPU problems are seen when I run mozilla-firefox, since
> > usually when I kill firefox Xorg recovers. I don't see any messages
> > in logs that might explain the behaviour and I can't find any related
> > bugs filed against Xorg.
>
> Do you leave firefox up all the time? seems to eat memory. Also many tabs means more memory usage. Can't understand the CPU hit from firefox though, unless its got some REALLY heavy pages open with java script and stuff?
>
It happens soon after I startup, with only a couple of firefox tabs.
Accessing sites like
google reader seem to trigger it though, so maybe javascript has
something to do with it ....
thanks
k
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