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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg slow after upgrade
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:22:14
Message-Id: 200910312121.10398.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg slow after upgrade by Valmor de Almeida
1 On Saturday 31 October 2009 17:34:30 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
2 > Krzysztof Poc wrote:
3 > > Hello I've recently upgraded my system and I found that Xorg redraws the
4 > > screen
5 > > very slowly. "top" shows me that "X" process takes up around 95% of the
6 > > CPU while I have Intel Core 2 Duo.
7 > >
8 > > What's wrong with my system ?
9 > >
10 > > I have the following installed:
11 > > kernel 2.6.30.7 #3 SMP (without PAE)
12 > > xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2
13 > > xorg-x11-7.4-r1
14 > > xf86-video-intel-2.8.1
15 > >
16 > > I've also successfully migrated to X.org Server 1.6 and libxcb 1.4 as
17 > > written
18 > > in official gentoo documentation.
19 > >
20 > > great thanks for any indications
21 >
22 > I am using
23 >
24 > kernel 2.6.30.9 i686
25 > xorg-server 1.6.3.901-r2
26 > xorg-x11 7.4-r1
27 > xf86-video-intel 2.8.1
28 > hal 0.5.12_rc1-r8
29 >
30 > Also have some unresolved issues with windowmaker-0.92.0-r8 not
31 > accepting background images on workspaces, and glxgears results lower
32 > (by half) than I had with xorg-server-1.5:
33 >
34 > -> glxgears
35 > 2095 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.739 FPS
36 > 1800 frames in 5.0 seconds = 359.967 FPS
37 > 1881 frames in 5.0 seconds = 376.091 FPS
38 > 2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.294 FPS
39 > 2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.286 FPS
40 > 1887 frames in 5.0 seconds = 377.349 FPS
41 > 1891 frames in 5.0 seconds = 378.111 FPS
42 > 1911 frames in 5.0 seconds = 382.009 FPS
43
44 Are either of you using KDE-4?
45
46 I get this too, it's caused by plasma-desktop (top says it's 35% cpu) which
47 makes X block on some IO (100% of one cpu).
48
49 Killing and starting plasma-desktop fixes it for me.
50
51 --
52 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg slow after upgrade Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@×××××.com>