[gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox

2007-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
Short time line of what happened: On January 28, I was doing some playing around with eye-candy on my X desktop, and started running animations (from Xscreensaver) as by desktop background. At the same time I was browsing the internet using firefox-2.0.0.1. The operation of the desktop was smooth

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox

2007-02-04 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Sunday 04 February 2007, Willie Wong wrote: On Febuary 2nd, I upgrade xorg from 7.1 to 7.2, which also pulled in an upgrade for xorg-server, libXdamage, and other things. Starting yesterday (the 3rd of Feb), I noticed lock-ups when ever firefox is open. At first I thought it was the fault

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox

2007-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:22:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Rudmer van Dijk squawked: are you sure this is only with firefox? so far this is the only app that I observed it with. xterm/aterm were left open for hours, a few large image editing jobs were done with gimp. Abiword and acroread I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg CPU spike with Firefox

2007-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 10:22:17PM +0100, Penguin Lover Rudmer van Dijk squawked: are you sure this is only with firefox? I have noticed this behavior too but due to lack of time I have reverted to use xorg-server-1.1.1-r4 for me it looked like every application triggered a cpu load of 90%