Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-Driver 9.6 support?

[Jesús Guerrero]

On Sat, July 4, 2009 03:58, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag 04 Juli 2009, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
>
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> I don't filter anything. Just default metalog with default settings.

I use sysklogd, that shouldn't matter much though. The config is pretty
standard, and certainly there's nothing related to fglrx in there. The
logs on a normal day are, at most, a few kb's (without fglrx+.30).

With that combo into scene, kern.log and syslog grow around 500mb each
filling the whole var. I need to delete these two files and restart
sysklogd to get some free space in /var (just in case someone around
has a similar problem). A quick hack on the printk code in the kernel
can be used though to solve all this spam. But the cpu usage doesn't
get any better.

I know not the reason why, but the truth is that xv wastes lots more
of cpu to play video when I have fglrx+.30, with or without the logs,
with or without patching the kernel. I really, really doubt that the
configuration of my system has anything to do with this, unless it has
to do something with some kernel setting.

> I know how the logs are filled up with 3d apps - but it is not as bad on
> THIS
> system. So what might be the reason?

No idea. But it's all fglrx spam, that's for sure. Why does it generate
more in my system? Well, I blame the hardware, since it's a driver who
creates all the spam, there are really few things that I could
"missconfigure", besides my kernel, that would affect it. I don't use
any essoteric stuff in xorg.conf, and I do not even use a compositing wm.

> sorry about that last line.

No harm done. Heat raises easily sometimes. I apologize for anything I've
done wrong as well.

Regards.
-- 
Jesús Guerrero