Carl Worth schrieb: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 06:01:34PM -0400, Andy Neitzke wrote: >> My problem is that frequently, even when the system should be idle, KDE's >> CPU >> monitor applet shows that one of the two processors is fully loaded. When >> this happens, "top" blames the X process, showing it using around 95% CPU. > ... >> My question is: how can I diagnose this problem more precisely? (Is it >> a symptom of an Xorg bug, or could it that some part of KDE is issuing an >> enormous number of requests to the X server for some reason?) > > Could be either. The next step would be to use a profiler, (such as > sysprof or oprofile), to find out what functions are eating up all of > the CPU. > > -Carl >
Hi Andy, you can start a pure X simply bei starting X (see man X) on the commandline. That should give a an impression if the server/driver (aka X11) is responsible or something other, later in the food chain. Next you can try with an application (xterm), then a simple WM (twm or), and see what will happen, perhaps the effekt is related to an special option like 3d functions ... re, wh _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
