On 09/01/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 14:21:08 +0100 > Kevin Glynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am running (up to date) Debian unstable on my laptop, it has a > > Radeon IGP 340M graphics chip. For the last month or so I am seeing > > the Xorg process gradually gobble up more and more CPU, up to 30/40% > > and in some cases 99%. > > I saw some of this behavior too. Also, big memory munching by Xorg. Finally > switched away from metacity (still gdm) and that problem is GONE. >
I hadn't thought of the window manager. I just tried to switch away from metacity, but I didn't find a good replacement :-( > > > > Even X on its own seems a little sluggish, e.g. when I change windows > > the gnome icons take a fraction of a second to appear in the new > > window. > > > > But the big CPU problems are seen when I run mozilla-firefox, since > > usually when I kill firefox Xorg recovers. I don't see any messages > > in logs that might explain the behaviour and I can't find any related > > bugs filed against Xorg. > > Do you leave firefox up all the time? seems to eat memory. Also many tabs > means more memory usage. Can't understand the CPU hit from firefox though, > unless its got some REALLY heavy pages open with java script and stuff? > It happens soon after I startup, with only a couple of firefox tabs. Accessing sites like google reader seem to trigger it though, so maybe javascript has something to do with it .... thanks k
