On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 17:15 +0100, Ph. Marek wrote: > > When viewing the URL http://www.emchome.net/article.php/3095 in konqueror > (3.5.5a.dfsg.1-2) xorg uses 100% cpu. > > When I have a root shell hanging around renicing helps a bit. > Logging off and on again stops the loop; but looking at the site sends it in > the same loop again.
Can you profile where the CPU time is spent with sysprof or oprofile? Also, please provide full X config and log files. > It seems that xorg is *not* restarted on logoff, as the same nice setting > still helps. That's correct, the X server just resets and starts a new generation by default. This can be changed in the display manager configuration. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://tungstengraphics.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer