Xfce spin Beta RC3 validation pass

[Philip Rhoades]

Guys,


On 2010-09-22 17:58, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:29 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>>
>> On 2010-09-22 09:13, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> Quick note - per my testing, Beta RC3 desktop spin passes the validation
>>> testing for Beta, with a clean slate except for
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636229 which I noted in
>>> passing. Great job!
>>>
>>> testing from others to confirm is still welcome! I'm not always right =)
>>
>>
>> I find it boots OK with qemu and from a USB stick and, in fact, seems to
>> install OK to a HD but when running the resulting install, I find it is
>> deadly slow and unusable (I am using F13 on the same machine - a Gateway
>> LT30 netbook - with no problems).
>
> Like OtherAdam, I can't reproduce; I did all that validation testing
> from an installed copy of the live image (I installed it to a USB stick,
> in fact, on a Dell Inspiron 6400, so it's not exactly a fast
> environment, but it ran fine).
>
> I agree with Adam - look for processes eating resources. I recommend
> using htop (a much better top replacement) and iotop (which will let you
> look for processes that are using the disk heavily).


Using top I found it is Xorg - taking up nearly 100% of CPU time . .

Is there some way to find out what it is about Xorg in particular?

Thanks,

Phil.
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