Xorg 7.0-rc1 and EXA (radeon 9200)

[Pierre Ossman]

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:00:17 +0200 wrote:
> El Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:43:12 +0200,
> Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list at drzeus.cx> escribió:
>
>   
>> I have a Radeon Mobility 9200 and the performance of EXA is very uneven. 
>> When it works as it should it really flies, but now and then it slows to 
>> a crawl. I'm guessing memory usage is an issue because the desktop 
>> window is the one causing most grief. A simple things as hovering above 
>> desktop icons (making them light up) causes the system to lock up for a 
>> second.
>>
>> I've tried the settings you suggested but it didn't have any effect. Any 
>> way of diagnosing the problem?
>>     
>
> I've had problems with a radeon9200se + kcompmgr - it works
> great for hours, but then everything starts slowing down. X.org RSS
> increases a lot (from 15 MB to > 40). restarting kompmgr solves it
> and RSS goes down a bit (not too much) but it's not as fast as before.
>   

I get problems a lot often than that. It is at least one or two each 
minute (provided I do something that causes large draw operations). 
Restarting xcompmgr doesn't have much effect. If anything, it makes 
things worse for a while.

Rgds
Pierre