On Saturday 31 October 2009 17:34:30 Valmor de Almeida wrote: > Krzysztof Poc wrote: > > Hello I've recently upgraded my system and I found that Xorg redraws the > > screen > > very slowly. "top" shows me that "X" process takes up around 95% of the > > CPU while I have Intel Core 2 Duo. > > > > What's wrong with my system ? > > > > I have the following installed: > > kernel 2.6.30.7 #3 SMP (without PAE) > > xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 > > xorg-x11-7.4-r1 > > xf86-video-intel-2.8.1 > > > > I've also successfully migrated to X.org Server 1.6 and libxcb 1.4 as > > written > > in official gentoo documentation. > > > > great thanks for any indications > > I am using > > kernel 2.6.30.9 i686 > xorg-server 1.6.3.901-r2 > xorg-x11 7.4-r1 > xf86-video-intel 2.8.1 > hal 0.5.12_rc1-r8 > > Also have some unresolved issues with windowmaker-0.92.0-r8 not > accepting background images on workspaces, and glxgears results lower > (by half) than I had with xorg-server-1.5: > > -> glxgears > 2095 frames in 5.0 seconds = 418.739 FPS > 1800 frames in 5.0 seconds = 359.967 FPS > 1881 frames in 5.0 seconds = 376.091 FPS > 2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.294 FPS > 2097 frames in 5.0 seconds = 419.286 FPS > 1887 frames in 5.0 seconds = 377.349 FPS > 1891 frames in 5.0 seconds = 378.111 FPS > 1911 frames in 5.0 seconds = 382.009 FPS
Are either of you using KDE-4? I get this too, it's caused by plasma-desktop (top says it's 35% cpu) which makes X block on some IO (100% of one cpu). Killing and starting plasma-desktop fixes it for me. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
