Xfce spin Beta RC3 validation pass

[John Obbele]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:25:24PM +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> Adam,
> 
> On 2010-09-22 21:03, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 20:29 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> >
> >>> 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?
> >
> > Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log  for incriminating messages.
> 
> I can't see anything obvious - should I send this log to anyone now that 
> this version as been OK'd already?

Hi !

Not sure this is related but I'm getting high system load (>1.7)
and CPU uses (~25% of a 1.6GHz CPU for Xorg + Terminal fullscreen
+ top) with the last xfce RC3 spin. My "gpu" is an intel i915GM.

Strangely, OpenGL, compositing and video playback works fine (I
means as good as with previous Fedora releases).

Nothing suspicious in dmesg, and Xorg.log.

One thing strange is /proc/interrupts. Under Fedora 13, I'm
getting:
"""""""""" /proc/interrupts f13 (truncated)
            CPU0       
   0:     142960   IO-APIC-edge      timer

  14:      35966   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix

  16:       2572   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5, i915

  17:      27351   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ipw2200, Intel ICH6
""""""""""

Whereas with Fedora 14:
"""""""""" /proc/interrupts f14 (truncated)
            CPU0       
   0:     221368   IO-APIC-edge      timer

  14:     105209   IO-APIC-edge      ata_piix

  16:     109245   IO-APIC-fasteoi   uhci_hcd:usb5, i915

  17:      77615   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ipw2200, Intel ICH6
""""""""""

Surely the ratio of "uhci_hcd:usb5, i915" seems really out of
proportion.

regards,
/John