Virtually impossible to keep load under 0.5 on idle desktop with F14+kms

[Jeff Raber]

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On 11/07/2010 09:55 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Hi,
> I just made a fresh install of Fedora 14 and it seems that KMS+gnome is a 
> bit of a cpu hog. I can boot into runlevel 3 and the load will move towards 
> 0 but when I move to runlevel 5 and logging in the system always has a load 
> of 0.5-1.0 even without starting any applications. The strange thing is 
> that I don't see anything suspicious in "top" so I can't even say which 
> application is causing the load exactly. Also if I boot with "nomodeset" I 
> don't see this problem (though the desktop becomes completely unusable for 
> regular work).
> Any ideas what might cause this or how I could go about finding out more?
> This is a system with an onboard NVidia chip but I'm using a Radeon R770 
> based card with the defaults ("radeon" driver with no xorg.conf).
> 
> Regards,
>    Dennis

Seem similar to the issue described here:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-October/094683.html

I'm not sure if anything ever came of that discussion.

Regards.
- -Jeff



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