GNOME 2.22 has been released!

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:24:58 -0400
> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome at freebsd.org
> 
> Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 01:23 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> GNOME 2.22.0 has just been merged into the ports tree.  
> > 
> > One more problem with recent Gnome - Xorg now all time eats CPU 
> > 10-30% constantly.
> > 
> > Exiting from all applications lowers that numbers, but even several
> > percents of CPU for idle system is too much.
> > 
> > Any ideas why it may happens and how to cure ?
> 
> No idea.  This I have not noticed.  There was some recent work that went 
> into xorg-server to handle a jerky mouse problem.  Perhaps that is 
> contributing to your CPU problem.

The "jerky mouse" fix should reduce CPU time, not increase it, as I
think it eliminates the huge number of gettimeofday calls (expensive in
FreeBSD) and replaces them with cheap call (which I forget) as the mouse
was only using it to tell that time was passing and does not care what
time it is.

On my system (with hald not running), I see well under 1% cpu use by
xorg.

Note that some apps can really make xorg busy. Any flash running?
Firefox (even ignoring flash) seems to do things that cause xorg
utilization to go way up for certain operations.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4  EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 224 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/attachments/20080326/2f7a29bf/attachment.pgp