X.org 7.2 eats the whole CPU whenever Firefox 2 displays something

[Scot Hetzel]

Which version of FreeBSD are you using?

FreeBSD 6.x had PR threads/101355 opened on this problem:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101355

But it was closed with the following reason:

> If your application is malloc hunger, then there is performance problem
> on 6.x since malloc is protected by single lock, you may try -CURRENT,
> the malloc was rewritten by Jason Evans on -CURRENT.

If your having this problem on -CURRENT, you may want to submit a new
bug report.

Scot

On 5/31/07, Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie at le-hen.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 12:20:42AM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > As you can notice, there are a _great_ number of syscall 454:
> > % jarjarbinks:tmp$ grep -c syscall_454 strace.firefox
> > % 26664
>
> FWIW, I've checked src/sys/kern/syscalls.master and syscall_454 is
> _umtx_op().  I don't think this has much to do with Xorg process
> eating all the available CPU.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Jeremie Le Hen
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