Am Dienstag, den 11.09.2012, 14:55 +0200 schrieb Michel Dänzer: > On Die, 2012-09-11 at 14:42 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: > > > > using Debian Sid/unstable with the awesome 3.4.13-1 window manager and > > Evolution 3.4.3-1, htop shows X to constantly use 10 % of the CPU. > > Closing Evolution the usage goes back to more or less 0 %. > > I'm not seeing this. Is there something in your Evolution window(s) that > is constantly repainting, e.g. a spinner in the status bar, a blinking > cursor, ... ? Now that you are mentioning it, in the bottom there is the message »Checking for New Messages« and next to it there is an animation where something goes around a circle. Canceling that removes X’s CPU usage. Thanks a lot. Should I recommend something to the Evolution folks on how to due such animations? Or is the only way to avoid animations? > > Could somebody please tell me what component (X driver, DRM, Evolution, > > Cairo, …) to investigate and how? > > I'd focus on profiling the X server, making sure the profiles show > symbols, ideally with call graphs. sysprof or perf might work better for > this than oprofile. Thanks. Lucky me, that this is not needed now and I can postpone how to figure out how to start X that way under Debian with GDM. Michael, thanks as always! Paul
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