Re: CPU time

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

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On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:33:05 -0500
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>  
> > I accidentally discovered this morning that Xorg is taking up 25
> > percent of cpu time when at idle. Is this normal or should I file a bug?
> > 
> > I'm running Etch.
> 
> I suppose it depends on what kind of box you're running.  I haven't got
> Etch on my 486 yet.  On my Athlon amd64, it sits there at 100% idle.
> 
> >From within X, open a single terminal.  run nice top.  Watch the process
> activity and also the memory.  Perhaps its swapping and the CPU is
> spending a lot of time waiting.

  First thing I did. No swapping, no activity but Xorg sits at the top
averaging 25 percent. Strange thing is it doesn't seem to affect the feel of
the desktop, but then maybe it'd be a lot faster if that much CPU wasn't being
sucked up. Anybody else experiencing this ??
 

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Cheers

Frank

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