On Thursday 16 March 2017 13:55:44 Eric Anholt wrote: > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> writes: > > Hello all, been a while since I rang your doorbell, greetings from > > West Virginia; > > > > I am in the process of converting an old lathe to cnc, and using a > > pi 3b as the driver. > > > > Doing some work on the configuration today, I got curious to see if > > the features I was adding to the configuration were pushing the poor > > pi to the point of exhaustion. Firing up htop, the various bits and > > pieces that together make up linuxcnc, were a total of about 4 or 5% > > of the cpu load. Compton, the x compositor, was burning something > > in the region of 165%, or a little over 1.5 of its 4 cores. It was > > also a few megabytes into swap, so I rebooted it, after which > > compton was only using perhaps 35% of one core. > > That sounds like you're running your compositor in software rendering.
According to the Xorg.0.log, yes. But I've no idea how to fix that. Thanks Eric. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
