On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:47:52 +0900 Joel Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM, Steve Litt > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:58:18 +0900 > > Joel Rees <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Steve Litt > >> <[email protected]> wrote: [clip Litt's bona-fides on RTFM] > >> > > >> > I have Wheezy running Openbox (I'm not sure how to detect > >> > Openbox's version, but I installed it normally with apt-get). > >> > I'm *not* running unclutter. Sometimes, my mouse pointer > >> > disappears when the mouse pointer comes to rest on anything with > >> > popup text, which is very obstructive (if you've ever worked on > >> > a computer that does this, you know what I mean). > >> > > >> > Often, this symptom doesn't happen for the first few minutes > >> > after starting X, but then later does. It appears not to happen > >> > in Xfce, but I didn't test Xfce for hours, so I can't be sure. > >> > >> Happens with my XFCE. (Wheezy.) > >> [clip symptom description details] > >> > >> This isn't even intermittent. X11 is trying to do too much, that's > >> all. That means it doesn't have time to keep the pointer updated. > > > > This is good information, Joel. Thanks for confirming it isn't > > Openbox only! > > > > So my next question is this: How have you reduced your X11 task > > load to eliminate the symptom? And how would one look at the > > relative weight of tasks X11 is doing? > > I haven't bothered. I just move the mouse away and wait a few seconds > for the pointer to come back. Maybe in your case you're getting worse > then a few seconds delay? > > If my guess (It is a guess, I guess.) is correct, reducing the load on > X is going to require deep diving in the code. The guess is based on [clip some of Joel's suspicions and Litt's speculations] > > Just a question, is /tmp done in ram on your machine or on disk? > slitt@mydesq2:~$ mount | grep "on /tmp" /dev/sdc7 on /tmp type ext4 (rw,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered) slitt@mydesq2:~$ /dev/sdc is a Western Digital Black, I think about a gigabyte. I forgot the command to tell me exactly. Now I have a question for you, and it just might be more relevant than it appears: Do you use claws-mail as your email client? What email client do you use? I couldn't find an X-mailer in your headers. I'll describe why this question is relevant in another post. Thanks for your help. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
