On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 02:13 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > When running top, I see that X is consuming 40% of memory which is not > surprising since I am running two X sessions with 3200x1200 (dual > head, radeon, open source) along with long running firefox, > thunderbird and VNC (also 3200x1200) apps). But when I bring up the > Soundcard Detection tool under KDE top shows Xorg is consistently > grabbing 93% of the CPU even when all I am doing is typing this > message. That would certainly explain a lot of the lag in response to > mouse clicks from the app. :-) Switching to Gnome and running top > there shows varying, but high (60%ish) CPU use with the Soundcard > Detection tool still running in both sessions. But with Gnome, > response to mousee clicks is fine, even with the high X CPU use. So you've found that some use profile makes X use all the CPU. Now you need to find out _what_ in X is taking all the time. You need to either use a tool like oprofile or sysprof to extract that information, or you need to instrument the X server to report on what requests and clients are using most of its time. The latter requires code changes to a project that many people find intimidating and/or unpleasant to work with, which is why I suggested using oprofile in the first place. - ajax -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
