Description of problem: On an otherwise idle Fedora 10 system, when a terminal window is opened and "top" run, Xorg shows a CPU usage of at least 10%. This percentage increases or decreases if I increase or decrease (respectively) the size of the terminal window. Also, other actions that change the screen display (such as mouse movements, opening or scrolling a browser window) make the CPU percentage of Xorg jump abnormally high (sometimes up to 80% in my observations). This is on a system with 4GB of RAM and a dual-core processor (2 x 2.4GHz). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.3-6.fc10.i386 xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.3-6.fc10.i386 How reproducible: Very Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system into X Windows 2. Open terminal window and run top command 3. Actual results: Xorg shows in top as constantly taking up 10% or more of CPU. This percentage increases if the terminal window size is increased. Expected results: Xorg should take 1-3% of CPU resources, as seen on other F10 machines. Additional info: I get the same results whether I use an ATI driver or the generic VESA driver.
Today (1/5/2009) our computer was updated with the latest ATI driver (xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.9.0.63.fc10.i386.rpm) and we get the same results as detailed above. None of our Fedora 9 machines have this problem.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run with "nomodeset" string on the kernel command line (press any Ctrl on startup to get grub menu and then "a" on the chosen kernel to get kernel command line editor)? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Created attachment 328482 [details] xorg.conf from affected system I am attaching 6 files: xorg.conf, Xorg.0.log, Xorg.1.log, Xorg.2.log, Xorg.3.log, and Xorg.0.log.nomodeset. The last one is the Xorg.0.log when booting using the nomodeset option as was requested. The other Xorg.*.log files are with a normal boot. Thanks for looking into this issue. Todd
Created attachment 328483 [details] Xorg.0.log from affected system
Created attachment 328484 [details] Xorg.1.log from affected system
Created attachment 328485 [details] Xorg.2.log from affected system
Created attachment 328486 [details] Xorg.3.log from affected system
Created attachment 328487 [details] Xorg.0.log from affected system (using nomodeset kernel parameter)
Same problem. Normally I use Feodra on my laptop to diminish the system resource usage. But today I got a new desktop PC, I installed fedora on that one. I found the fans is very loud when I run firefox to browse with some images or videos, it's extremely loud, not normal. But this doesn't happen when I switch to Windows XP on the same machine. I compared the cpu usage, apparently, the reason why the machine becomes loud is the cpu usage within Fedora. Xorg is always the top 1, at least 10% usage if there is any images on the webpages.
I did a good amount of research for the entire day on Sunday May 10, 2009 Finally on 12th May I referred the following link. http://www.bramschoenmakers.nl/en/node/549 ( Fixing Plasma performance with the open source Radeon driver ) I implemented the solution provided in the above link on my IBM Thinkpad R40, with ATI Mobility Radeon R40 ( R100 based chip ) i am running Fedora 10 Earlier I used to have a Xorg CPU percentage unusually high Mostly above 90 % always I had a slow response especially using Firefox tabbing ( a delay of about 2 seconds ) Also, the response was slow using Dolphin file manager and doing all such tasks But now after implementing the solution provided in http://www.bramschoenmakers.nl/en/node/549 THE CPU percentage for Xorg process has considerably reduced. I can use Firefox tabs with ease ( almost immediate response to mouse click ) Also when I click any icon in Dolphin, it opens up almost immediately I hope my inputs will help in speedy resolution of this bug I am thankful to Bram Schoenmakers for his valuable solution at http://www.bramschoenmakers.nl/en/node/549
Use the following two options in Xorg.conf under Device section Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "AccelDFS" "true"
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