X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

[Norberto Meijome]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:01:28 +0000
Mark Ovens <parish at magichamster.com> wrote:

> Peter Boosten wrote:
> > Ken Gunderson wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>> Looks like you're having a problem with your window manager, instead of 
> >>> Xorg.
> >>>
> >>> Mine (with enlightenment-devel) works like charm. None of the issues
> >>> you describe anyway.
> >>>
> >>> Peter
> >> 
> >> So how would you explain that I am seeing same type of behaviors in
> >> straight "startx" with default twm, i.e. bundled Xorg wm?
> >> 
> > 
> > Dunno. But the troubles cannot originate from the xorg ports, or 
> > everyone would see the same behaviour, right?
> > 
> 
>  > Maybe some other port, or hardware (maybe your video card? - just
>  > guessing), or the driver for that particular piece of hardware.
>  >
> 
> One would expect so, but it would appear not to be the case. I'm having 
> the same problem - if I ssh in from another box I see the Xorg process 
> sucking >100% CPU and the state is *GIANT

I would very much like to see a process using "> 100% CPU" :)

What CPU ? I haven't seen GIANT on Xorg for a while...but, again, I don't check
all the time :d

anyway... my xorg sits at 7.81% on select...i've been on this session for 17
hours, and have a heavily loaded xfce session with 10 virt desktops. I actually
recently removed the lower limit for cpufreq to drop the freq and i've been
hovering @ 200 Mhz (measured once a second in gkrellm), although right now I'm
between 800 and 1000 Mhz.

could you please send your xorg.conf ? 

have you tried attaching ktrace to xorg in those situations and seeing what it
is doing ? 
what about other system vitals ? is your disk trashing ? RAM usage? 

> 
> I'm using an ATI card but people are having the same issue with nVidia 
> and Matrox cards. My box has run every version of Xorg since it replaced 
> XFree86 on FreeBSD and many versions of XFree86 before that without this 
> problem.
> 
> Also, the problem seems to come and go for me as I update my ports, i.e. 
> the box has the problem, I run ``portmaster -a'' and the problem goes 
> away. sometime later I run ``portmaster -a'' again and the problem 
> re-appears. Only seems to happen when X-related stuff gets updated.

maybe if you can pinpoint WHAT gets updated it would be of more help :)

the ati drivers had several updates over the last few months...

> The other thing I've noticed is, on my box at least, that the problem 
> always starts when I move the mouse (not every time of course) so could 
> it be Xorg 7.3 not playing nicely with the mouse driver - or the USB 
> driver since my mouse is a USB one? Which may explain why some people 
> see the problem and others don't?

I'd like to see a count of hands ... who DOESN'T use USB mice or
built-in-mice-in-laptops nowadays...

by any chance you wouldn't have the xcomposite extension enabled... ? 

> This is really becoming a big PITA.

i understand, but without concrete information it wont go anywhere fast :)

B
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