Neil, I still think that profiling xterm will tell me a lot. I can run oprofile on Xorg too once I get that far. I'd like to see what function in xterm is making the call into Xorg. and where Xorg is spending its time when this occurs. -Mike
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 22:31 -0800, Neil Parker wrote: > > My first suspicion is that top is telling you the truth when it says > that > your cycles are being eaten up inside Xorg, in which case a profiling > version of xterm probably won't tell you much that's helpful. I > suspect > the place to start looking is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug