On Sunday 04 February 2007, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Febuary 2nd, I upgrade xorg from 7.1 to 7.2, which also pulled in
> an upgrade for xorg-server, libXdamage, and other things.
>
> Starting yesterday (the 3rd of Feb), I noticed lock-ups when ever
> firefox is open. At first I thought it was the fault of the animated
> background, but then I found out that it still happened if I started a
> no-frills, barebone fvwm session. I tried almost all of my other X
> applications, and none of them had these behaviour (mplayer, inkscape,
> gimp, abiword included).
>
> When I start firefox, the cpu use for X shots up to 90+ percent (for
> X, not for firefox) for several minutes, and everytime I open a new
> tab X cpu use goes up to 90+ percent for several minutes, during which
> firefox is completely unresponsive, and xterms that I opened have a
> lag of round 0.5 - 2 seconds between keypress and character appearing
> on screen.
are you sure this is only with firefox?
I have noticed this behavior too but due to lack of time I have reverted to
use xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 for me it looked like every application triggered a
cpu load of >90% by X. only I normally have a firefox window open all the
time...
have you tried a rebuild of firefox _after_ installation of then new xorg
packages? maybe that will solve the problem.
Rudmer
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