On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:22:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Rudmer van Dijk squawked: > are you sure this is only with firefox?
so far this is the only app that I observed it with. xterm/aterm were left open for hours, a few large image editing jobs were done with gimp. Abiword and acroread I only had open for shorter periods of time (several minutes tops) so I cannot say with absolutely certainty that they don't cause the same behaviour. But firefox really stood out since almost every operation on it (starting it, clicking a link, get a new blank tab opened, pasting in a link, etc.) causes the CPU spike. > 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... Right, on my stable box everything works like a charm. And I think they even improved the firefox memory leak problem between 1.5.x and 2.0.x, since now I can leave a dozen tabs open for a week or two without OOM killer kicking in. > have you tried a rebuild of firefox _after_ installation of then new xorg > packages? maybe that will solve the problem. Yes, actually, just now I tried both 2.0.0.1 and 2.0.0.1-r2, so it is probably a problem with xorg. Since you are also observing the problem, I'll try reverting to a lower version of xorg-server and see. Thanks, W -- "I'm going to do this in more stupid fashion in a moment." ~DeathMech, S. Sondhi. P-town PHY 205 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 58 days, 19:55 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
