10-50% CPU used by xorg?

[Ben E. Hard]

Am Mittwoch, 20. Februar 2008 schrieb Ross Vandegrift:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:05:30PM +0100, Ben E. Hard wrote:
> > is it normal, that Xorg uses something between 10 to 50 (or even more)
> > percent of my CPU (according to top)? I have a i830M with intel from git
> > on a vaio laptop with a Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU  1000MHz, and
> > a dual-screen setup.
> >
> > Sometimes the system is quite slow and I wonder, if this might be related
> > to xorg.
>
> Since no one has mentioned it, TTF font rendering with subpixel
> smoothing and all the jazz is very, very cpu intensive.
> gnome-terminal defaults to using TTF, and a large scrolling terminal
> will easy eat most of one Core 2 proc.  Switching your terminal font
> to "fixed" can increase this by orders of magnitude.

You mean in Konsole (in KDE)? I had monospace and can change to Fonts [misc], 
but I couldn't see any difference in CPU-load so far.

Ben