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

[Frank de Lange]

Bill Crawford wrote:
> 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" ...
> 

You mean that funnily formatted big number? I sort of ignored it as it
looks like something went wrong copying it to the message. If it
*really* means X has been running > 1000 minutes then yes, something is
wrong. I'd say try another driver, VESA comes to mind...