Bug#575804: excessive cpu usage with several applications (firefox, epiphany, etc.)

[Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>]

Hello Julien,

thanks for the reply.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:48:17PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> severity 575804 normal
> tag 575804 moreinfo
> kthxbye
> 
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 13:40:56 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
> 
> > I currently have the problem that Xorg takes 100% CPU when some
> > applications are running. It appears to be mostly triggered
> > by firefox and epiphany but other software (e.g. opera) also
> > leads to unusual CPU usage (50-60%). This makes my system
> > quiet unresponsive when working with those applications.
> > 
> Please try to figure out where X is spending this cpu time (you could
> e.g. interrupt it with gdb a few times, or use a profiler...).

somewhat more information would be helpful as I'm not very
experienced in that field.

Any documentation pointers?

Thanks and best Regards,
Patrick