On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 22:00 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 ?? Yes, I have. Gnome Panel Monitors (you know animations for load average and so on) have this effect. Also, gdesklets. Some other "passive looking" things like remote e-mail monitors, swallowed applications (like XMMS or BMP) tend to defunct swallow-applet but still play music or what have you. But even a large xterm with "top" running with changes will cause XORG to run-up the usage list. It does have to render the changes, No? Where you want to really, close all your normal programs (not any panel mounted stuff etc..). Then CTRL-ALT-F1, login then use top. See what xorg is doing then. -- greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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