Jens Hamisch wrote: > Hi Bart, > hi Doug, > > >> What does prstat report as running? Is it mozilla? What page are you >> displaying? Does it matter? > > It does not matter which page is being displayed. > > The head lines of prstat during normal operation: > > PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP > 27671 jens 83M 22M sleep 59 0 1:16:33 0.9% gnome-terminal/2 > 27473 jens 133M 113M sleep 59 0 23:23:54 0.9% Xsun/1 > 27661 jens 69M 14M sleep 59 0 0:21:52 0.3% metacity/1 > 9476 jens 4872K 4616K cpu0 59 0 0:00:00 0.2% prstat/1 > 27732 jens 104M 28M sleep 49 0 1:14:47 0.2% java/14 > ... > Total: 115 processes, 270 lwps, load averages: 0.15, 0.17, 0.15 > > > And again the head lines during switching the window focus from Mozilla > to some terminal window: > > PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP > 27473 jens 133M 113M sleep 50 0 23:24:09 31% Xsun/1 > 27661 jens 69M 14M sleep 59 0 0:21:53 0.9% metacity/1 > 8511 jens 129M 63M sleep 59 0 0:06:08 0.8% mozilla-bin/6 > 27671 jens 83M 22M sleep 59 0 1:16:35 0.5% gnome-terminal/2 > 9476 jens 4872K 4616K cpu0 59 0 0:00:00 0.2% prstat/1 > 27732 jens 104M 28M sleep 49 0 1:14:47 0.2% java/14 > ... > Total: 115 processes, 270 lwps, load averages: 0.27, 0.20, 0.16 > > > vmstat 2 displays the following during "normal operation": > > kthr memory page disk faults cpu > r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr f0 s6 sd -- in sy cs us sy id > 2 0 0 3181928 109624 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1082 1739 800 13 4 83 > 0 0 0 3181848 109616 0 93 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1100 993 629 4 3 93 > 0 0 0 3181848 109616 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 685 470 332 2 2 96 > 0 0 0 3181848 109760 0 94 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 674 456 316 2 1 96 > > > and this during a window focus change: > > 0 0 0 3181336 110360 0 204 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 979 1728 774 39 4 57 > 0 0 0 3179216 109608 0 95 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 681 973 453 97 3 0 > 0 0 0 3182624 110368 0 300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 681 758 404 44 2 53 > > > > The workstation this is running on is a SunBlade 2000 with 2 750 MHz > processors > and 1 GB of memory. There are two graphic cards in the workstation, one > XVR-500 > and a GFX-8P. > > > With respect to the vmstat output I'd not say that there is a memory shortage. > However, why does Xsun consume so much CPU percentage during a "simple" window > focus change? Could it also be the graphic card driver? The tests done during > writng this mail were done on the GFX-8P only. > > If not yet installed the latest Xsun patch 119059-13: > > <Eendracht,jens> Private 69 > showrev -p | grep 119059 > Patch: 119059-09 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWxwplt, > SUNWxwopt, SUNWxwinc, SUNWxwacx, SUNWxwsrv > Patch: 119059-11 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWxwplt, > SUNWxwopt, SUNWxwinc, SUNWxwacx, SUNWxwsrv > > The latest XVR-100 patch is installed: > Patch: 118712-08 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWpfb, > SUNWpfbw, SUNWpfbcf > Patch: 118712-09 Obsoletes: Requires: Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWpfb, > SUNWpfbw, SUNWpfbcf > > > Jens
Are you using transparency? Do you have auto-raise configured? - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance barts at cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts
