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On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:42:08 -0500
Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca> wrote:
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On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:11:08 -0500
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> 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.
Gnome Panel Monitors (you know animations for load average and so
on) have this effect.
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.
I'm not running Gnome -- I run IceWm - there are no applets other
than the two panel monitors...cpu and net traffic and I have never
I discovered today it was one of the IceWM THEMES which is the
culprit. For some reason it drove Xorg time up to 24-25%. I switched
themes and the problem is gone.