On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:21:12AM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: > According to "top", the "xorg" process uses ~25-40% of my AMD 3000+ CPU > several times a minute for several seconds at a time. I suspect some > other program uses xorg to execute its code for it. > > How do I find out what process uses the xorg process to do its stuff for it?
Anything that puts anything on the screen gets xorg to do it. Also, many apps pre-process images (e.g. the next page of a pdf) and store the image in xorg's memory. KDE does this. Its a royal pain when I want to use KPF on my Athlon64 (with pleanty of memory) by sshing in from my P-II with 64 MB. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
