[CentOS] Anyone else think the latest Xorg fix is hogging stuff?

[Bill Maltby (C4B)]

On Sat, 2015-06-27 at 21:17 -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote:
> On 06/27/15 17:05, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote:
> > Since the latest update (may wrap here),
> > xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.15.0-26.el6.centos.0.1.x86_64 Sat 20 Jun 2015
> > 04:16:01 PM EDT
> > xorg-x11-server-common-1.15.0-26.el6.centos.0.1.x86_64 Sat 20 Jun 2015
> > 04:15:58 PM EDT
> ><snip>
 
> > Xorg is competing heavily with FF for top hog on my system. In FF I
> > understand because I had multiple windows (6 desktops) with many tabs. I
> > know this would theoretically increase Xorg work as well but prior to
> > this update I seldom saw it near the top of "top"
> > 
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
> > COMMAND                                                
> >  4055 hardtolo  20   0 2165m 945m  49m R 95.9 12.0   3724:26
> > firefox                                                
> >  3119 root      20   0  276m 121m  34m S 34.0  1.6   2228:58
> > Xorg                                                   
> > 15645 hardtolo  20   0 6163m 350m  26m S 10.6  4.5 181:50.51
> > java                                                   
> ><snip>
 
> > Anyone else pound the crap out of a desktop with FF and see Xorg getting
> > "fat"?
> > 
> > TIA for any clues or response.
> > 
> > Bill
> > 
> 
> Here's what I see with three FF sessions running at the same time:
> 
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> 
>  2631 fahclien  39  19  832m 530m 3012 S 637.9  1.7 311:40.44 FahCore_a4
> 
>  4236 mlapier   20   0 2530m 1.4g  42m R 83.7  4.6   2:50.27 firefox
> 
>  2823 root      20   0  163m  42m  17m S 19.9  0.1   1:31.18 Xorg
> 
>  3429 mlapier   20   0  625m 158m  39m S  2.3  0.5   1:06.08 skype
> 

Follow-up from my previous post, which as others have noted Goodle is
kind enoungh to not let me conveniently see ...

I had forgotten that the longer FF runs in my setup the more CPU it
tends to use. And I assume this feeds through to demand on Xorg.

I stopped FF, restarted and now see very reasonable numbers for it and
Xorg, which no longer sits so high up in CPU usage.

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+
COMMAND                                                
 7815 hardtolo  20   0 1590m 563m  45m S  8.9  7.2  14:42.16
firefox                                                
 8711 hardtolo  20   0  786m  91m  21m S  2.3  1.2   7:16.57
plugin-containe                                        
 9409 wild-bil  20   0 15272 1400  888 R  0.7  0.0   0:00.55
top                                                    
 1867 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:09.25
kondemand/0                                            
 1868 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:06.48
kondemand/1                                            
 2195 root      20   0 22516 1084  916 S  0.3  0.0   0:12.73
hald-addon-stor                                        
 6890 TempTemp  20   0  264m  12m 4712 S  0.3  0.2   0:01.35
gnome-screensav                                        
 7315 hardtolo  20   0  540m  15m  10m S  0.3  0.2   0:13.58
clock-applet                                           
 7919 root      20   0  197m  50m  11m S  0.3  0.6   0:38.11
Xorg                                                   
 8043 wild-bil  20   0  494m  10m 7884 S  0.3  0.1   0:01.35
gnome-settings-                                        
 8096 wild-bil  20   0  540m  13m  10m S  0.3  0.2   0:13.41
clock-applet

Thanks for passing on the reply, which eventually logged my memory.

Bill