Xorg in swwrt

Sun Feb 6 09:28:16 UTC 2011

On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:19:12PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> I updated ports (portmaster -a basically) on this 8.2-PRE box and now I find X takes a long, long time to start up and uses lots of CPU. It shows the wchan as swwrt.
> 
> eg..
> last pid: 21791;  load averages:  0.12,  0.29,  0.23                     up 0+16:09:07  15:16:15
> 496 processes: 2 running, 494 sleeping
> CPU:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice, 46.7% system,  0.0% interrupt, 53.3% idle
> Mem: 190M Active, 33M Inact, 3217M Wired, 198M Cache, 15M Buf, 171M Free
> Swap: 4096M Total, 621M Used, 3475M Free, 15% Inuse, 212K Out
> 
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND
> 21787 fiona         1  76    0   168M   134M swwrt   0   0:04 32.37% Xorg
swwrt means waiting for the syncronous swap-out to finish.
This is consistent with the top indicating the non-trivial amount of
swap space used and swapout happen right now.

Look at the working set of the application you are starting.
Another thing that is standing out is huge wired count.
> 21788 darius        1  76    0 31860K  4868K pause   1   0:00  1.17% zsh
>  2081 darius        4  44    0   113M 11620K ucond   1   9:45  0.10% python2.6
>   656 root          1  44    0 24392K  1096K select  1   3:44  0.00% ppp
>  1881 darius       32  52    0   135M  8804K uwait   0   2:24  0.00% python2.6
> 
> Does anyone else see this?
> If it matters I am using the xf86-video-ati driver
> (II) RADEON(0): vgaHWGetIOBase: hwp->IOBase is 0x03d0, hwp->PIOOffset is 0x0000
> (==) RADEON(0): RGB weight 888
> (II) RADEON(0): Using 8 bits per RGB (8 bit DAC)
> (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon HD 4200" (ChipID = 0x9710)
> (--) RADEON(0): Linear framebuffer at 0x00000000d8000000
> (II) RADEON(0): PCI card detected
> 
> [snip]
> 
> (II) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION  : 0x003f0000
> (II) RADEON(0): Depth moves disabled by default
> (II) RADEON(0): Allocating from a screen of 131008 kb
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 32 kb for hardware cursor 0 at offset 0x00b7c000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 32 kb for hardware cursor 1 at offset 0x00b80000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 11760 kb for front buffer at offset 0x00000000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 64 kb for PCI GART at offset 0x07ff0000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 11760 kb for back buffer at offset 0x00b84000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 11760 kb for depth buffer at offset 0x01700000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 47616 kb for textures at offset 0x0227c000
> (II) RADEON(0): Will use 48080 kb for X Server offscreen at offset 0x050fc000
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci:0000:01:05.0
> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0
> drmOpenDevice: open result is 10, (OK)
> drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 10
> drmOpenByBusid: drmGetBusid reports pci:0000:01:05.0
> (II) [drm] DRM interface version 1.2
> (II) [drm] DRM open master succeeded.
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Using the DRM lock SAREA also for drawables.
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xd8000000
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel
> (II) RADEON(0): X context handle = 0x3
> (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler
> [in swwrt]
> 
> Does anyone else see this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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