Hello,
Thank you for pointing out xscope, I didn't know about it.
I ran my app under xscope and the first thing I noticed was that there were
many DAMAGE-Event related messages, about 90 groups of them per second. So
on a hunch, I disabled DAMAGE in X and the problem of the constant chatter
went
On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 23:40 -0800, Neil Whelchel wrote:
Here is a cut and paste of what strace shows, the messages repeat
about 90 times per second when tabs are active.
strace output is unpleasantly difficult to read for this purpose. Try
using xscope instead:
Hello,
I am working with a pygtk program that draws various forms for data input.
Any time that I use tabs, I end up with 100% CPU usage. As soon as I remove
the tabs, the CPU returns to idle. I did some research on the 'net and I
found a number of people complaining about slow rendering when tabs
