Xorg in swwrt

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 23/06/2012, at 19:02, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2011-Feb-06 15:19:12 +1030, Daniel O'Connor <darius at dons.net.au> 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.
> 
> FWIW, I've run into this a couple of times recently when logging out of
> X.  This is with X.Org X Server 1.10.6 and a "ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro"
> on 8-STABLE r235229.  The problem seems to go away after a couple of hours.


I think it's a memory fragmentation issue but I am only really guessing.

Certainly after putting more RAM in the system in question the problem happened less frequently.

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