Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: xorg
On Jaunty, if I open a gnome-terminal and run:
$ netstat -atuvpnec
CPU usage is way up and the gnome desktop is very unresponsive. Running
'top' I see that Xorg is taking up the vast majority of CPU.
$ ps auxww|grep 11213
root 11213 51.3 3.5 80332 54128 tty7 Rs+ 09:26 15:31
/usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth -nolisten tcp vt7
$ sudo strace -v -f -p 11213 -c
[sudo] password for jamie:
Process 11213 attached - interrupt to quit
^CProcess 11213 detached
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
72.66 0.000295 0 5073 ioctl
27.34 0.000111 1 105 select
0.00 0.000000 0 183 67 read
0.00 0.000000 0 3 munmap
0.00 0.000000 0 170 setitimer
0.00 0.000000 0 125 sigreturn
0.00 0.000000 0 73 writev
0.00 0.000000 0 4 rt_sigprocmask
0.00 0.000000 0 4 mmap2
0.00 0.000000 0 163 clock_gettime
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.000406 5903 67 total
Attached is the output from 'sudo strace -v -f -p 11213'
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu9
ProcEnviron:
PATH: custom, user
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-4-generic (bui...@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3
20081217 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.3.2-2ubuntu9) ) #6-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 1
22:53:42 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-4-generic i686
XorgConf:
xkbcomp:
** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug
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High CPU usage when showing text in gnome-terminal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/313490
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