[Eug-lug] ubuntu xterm strangeness

Mike Cherba mike.cherba at caviumnetworks.com
Tue Dec 11 11:20:00 PST 2007


Neil,
	I still think that profiling xterm will tell me a lot.  I can run
oprofile on Xorg too once I get that far.  I'd like to see what function
in xterm is making the call into Xorg.  and where Xorg is spending its
time when this occurs.  
			-Mike

On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 22:31 -0800, Neil Parker wrote:
> 
> My first suspicion is that top is telling you the truth when it says
> that
> your cycles are being eaten up inside Xorg, in which case a profiling
> version of xterm probably won't tell you much that's helpful.  I
> suspect
> the place to start looking is in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.


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