After running X for a few hours, the xorg server starts to use around 20% of the CPU. Is that not rather high? The computer is a laptop running sid.
Here is an extract from a typical htop display (formatted to make it less wide), sorted by CPU usage: CPU[||||||||||| 29.0%] Tasks: 246 total, 1 running Mem[||||||||||||||||||||||||||208/486MB] Load average: 0.56 0.42 0.30 Swp[|||| 153/1463MB] Uptime: 3 days, 22:43:19 PID USER VIRT RES SHR S CPU% MEM% TIME+ Command 27837 root 171M 20276 4908 S 25.0 4.1 37:05.50 /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp 29508 nick 2516 1308 968 R 2.0 0.3 0:01.03 htop 27990 nick 11188 5928 3176 S 1.0 1.2 2:31.75 xmobar 27918 nick 12052 5368 2348 S 0.0 1.1 0:01.71 xterm -class UXTerm -title u X clients are typically uxterm, iceowl, emacsclient and iceweasel. Even after closing all X clients except the desktop (xmonad + xmobar) the X server cpu% remains about the same. The computer is running sid with kernel 2.6.31-1-686. The device driver in its xorg.conf is "intel". The graphics chip via lspci: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02) If I quit X and restart, the cpu settles down to around 3% as shown by htop. But it increases again after an hour or two, with accompanying fan noise. So far I cannot tell if anything in particular triggers the increase. -- Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org