Re: RSDL v0.31

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Sat Mar 17 2007 - 08:06:28 EST


On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>Rocks and clubs at work (down boy <whack>, down i say!;).
>
>This is .30 with some targeted unfairness. I seem to be making progress

Try -0.31, its better yet.

>toward beating it to a bloody but cooperative pulp. It might be
>possible to have my cake and eat it too. Likely too ugly to live
>though.
>
>top - 11:35:50 up 57 min, 12 users, load average: 5.20, 4.30, 2.57
>
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ P COMMAND
> 6599 root 26 0 174m 30m 8028 R 51 3.1 7:08.70 0 Xorg
> 7991 root 29 0 18196 14m 5188 R 47 1.4 0:55.70 0
> amarok_libvisua 7995 root 37 5 3720 2444 976 R 44 0.2
> 0:27.53 1 lame 7993 root 37 5 3720 2448 976 R 40 0.2
> 0:46.60 1 lame

What X driver are you using Mike? Are you on a builtin video chipset
using mobo shared memory? I'm running the nvidia 9755 driver here with a
jaton nvidia 6200-256 card here, and YES I KNOW that taints the kernel,
but x is using on average, 1.3% of the cpu. Its sitting at a -1 nice and
it continues to give usable results here in the face of a make -j8
running in another shell.

With figures (over 50% cpu to X) like that, its no wonder you're
squawking about it.

An old phrase comes to mind "Physician, Heal thyself". Your X is broken
and you are trying to blame everything but X. Fix your hardware and
drivers.

--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.
-- Howard Kandel
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