On 05/11/2012, Brandon Invergo <bran...@invergo.net> wrote: > First, to see what I'm talking about: > 1) Open a terminal and start some CPU monitor (ie top or htop) > 2) Open another terminal and load a rather large man page (try > termcap(5)) > 3) Start scrolling down on the man page and watch your Xorg process's > CPU usage spike. Depending on how fast your computer is, this can be > anywhere from ~10%-75% CPU usage (15% on this quad-core Intel Core2Pro, > 75% on my 800mhz Arm Cortex A8) > 4) Try the same experiment with xterm or urxvt: no CPU spike
I tried this and found that st version 386 actually does better, i.e. lower CPU usage, than urxvt.