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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Why is X taking up so much CPU time?
Date: 20 Nov 1996 20:58:10 -0000
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In article <56mk3h$b4a@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
: 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
And it's not exactly marginal ! My home machine says:
awfulhak:brian:~ $ ps -axuww | sed 's/ / /g' | sort -n +9 -r | head -2
root 269 0.6 8.0 5696 6352 ?? S Sat07PM 592:15.73 X -bpp 16 :0 (XF86_S3)
root 19032 0.0 1.4 772 1120 ?? S 11:27PM 1:12.47 smbd -l /var/log/smbd
--
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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