3 thoughts on - Anyone Else Think The Latest Xorg Fix Is Hogging Stuff?

• Here’s what I see with three FF sessions running at the same time:

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

  2631 fahclien 39 19 832m 530m 3012 S 637.9 1.7 311:40.44 FahCore_a4

  4236 mlapier 20 0 2530m 1.4g 42m R 83.7 4.6 2:50.27 firefox

  2823 root 20 0 163m 42m 17m S 19.9 0.1 1:31.18 Xorg

  3429 mlapier 20 0 625m 158m 39m S 2.3 0.5 1:06.08 skype

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  ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004
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• Thanks Mark.

  Do you happen to know (recall?) if this is more or less in-line with what went on before the latest Xorg fix?

  I may not be doing too badly. I also run 3 users in three X sessions. Two have six desktops and one has two desktops. The last is my “idle”
  user, never doing anything, that sits on tty1 so I can have my active users like they were before the CentOS 6.6 upgrade – the first X session used to come on tty7 and did not screw up when switching run levels to/from 3 and 5 (bug open on CentOS, but I suspect not passed upstream?).

  This is on my home-built box on an MSI 760GM-P23FX MB, SATA.

  From lspci -v, some things that may affect me?
  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
  [AMD/ATI] Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] (prog-if 00 [VGA
  controller])
  Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Device 5450
  Kernel driver in use: radeon
  Kernel modules: radeon CPU stuff, 6 cores:
  processor : 0
  vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
  cpu family : 16
  model : 10
  model name : AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1035T Processor stepping : 0
  cpu MHz : 800.000
  cache size : 512 KB
  physical id : 0
  siblings : 6
  core id : 0
  cpu cores : 6
  apicid : 0
  initial apicid : 0
  fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 6
  wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt pdpe1gb rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow constant_tsc rep_good nonstop_tsc extd_apicid aperfmperf pni monitor cx16 popcnt lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs skinit wdt nodeid_msr cpb npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save pausefilter bogomips : 5200.20

  Memory: $ free (may wrap)
  total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8057968 2675424 5382544 12192 104652
  1149796
  -/+ buffers/cache: 1420976 6636992
  Swap: 14352376 0 14352376

  Do you/anyone think my Xorg CPU usage looks reasonable all things considered or should I be looking for some “tweaks”?

  TIA, Bill

• Follow-up from my previous post, which as others have noted Goodle is kind enoungh to not let me conveniently see …

  I had forgotten that the longer FF runs in my setup the more CPU it tends to use. And I assume this feeds through to demand on Xorg.

  I stopped FF, restarted and now see very reasonable numbers for it and Xorg, which no longer sits so high up in CPU usage.

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
  COMMAND
  7815 hardtolo 20 0 1590m 563m 45m S 8.9 7.2 14:42.16
  firefox
  8711 hardtolo 20 0 786m 91m 21m S 2.3 1.2 7:16.57
  plugin-containe
  9409 wild-bil 20 0 15272 1400 888 R 0.7 0.0 0:00.55
  top
  1867 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:09.25
  kondemand/0
  1868 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:06.48
  kondemand/1
  2195 root 20 0 22516 1084 916 S 0.3 0.0 0:12.73
  hald-addon-stor
  6890 TempTemp 20 0 264m 12m 4712 S 0.3 0.2 0:01.35
  gnome-screensav
  7315 hardtolo 20 0 540m 15m 10m S 0.3 0.2 0:13.58
  clock-applet
  7919 root 20 0 197m 50m 11m S 0.3 0.6 0:38.11
  Xorg
  8043 wild-bil 20 0 494m 10m 7884 S 0.3 0.1 0:01.35
  gnome-settings-
  8096 wild-bil 20 0 540m 13m 10m S 0.3 0.2 0:13.41
  clock-applet

  Thanks for passing on the reply, which eventually logged my memory.

  Bill