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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.orst.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!mr.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why is X taking up so much CPU time? Date: 17 Nov 1996 08:58:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <56mk3h$b4a@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <328B6B04.41C67EA6@connectnet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Chris <coold@connectnet.com> wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5 on a Petn 75 with 16 megs of ram, and whenever > i'm in X, my load averages are anywhere above 0.50 with nothing > running. What X server? XF86_SVGA only? Non-accelerated servers indeed require much CPU since they gotta do everything theirselves. Even with accelerated chipsets, X is still the prime consumer of CPU cycles in many cases: j@uriah 202% ps -uwwp 209 USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 209 0.7 13.4 5720 4056 ?? Ss Fri11PM 50:09.41 XF86_S3 -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)