FW: Re: Xorg with ATI / RV370 sneakily eats half my CPU with empty screen?

[Bill Crawford]

On Wednesday 21 January 2009 11:13:20 Frank de Lange wrote:

> Looks to me like X does not use more than 1.7% of CPU so that is not out
> of the ordinary. To find out more about where the memory goes you can
> install xrestop to see if something leaks somewhere. Either run it
> interactivally and watch the numbers or run it in batch mode (-b) and
> redirect the output to a file. You might be able to find the culprit
> that way.

The biiiig number on the far right before the command shows the time used since 
the process started, and it's much bigger for the X process than his number 
cruncher, and this is what he's bothered about. The 1.7% figure is only about 
the CPU use at around the time he ran "top" ...