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

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
> x264-0.0.0-0.4.20101111.el6.rf.x86_64         Wed 19 Nov 2014 04:56:05
> PM EST
> xvidcore-1.2.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64                Wed 19 Nov 2014 04:55:49
> PM EST
> .
> .
> .
> drop a lot of older stable stuff ...
> 
> 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                                                   
>  5663 hardtolo  20   0 1557m 202m  24m S  9.6  2.6 294:53.69
> plugin-containe                                        
> 27871 hardtolo  20   0 1957m 520m  88m S  7.6  6.6 456:54.44
> soffice.bin                                            
> 18245 hardtolo  20   0 6228m 356m  26m S  7.3  4.5 112:09.55
> java                                                   
> 14349 hardtolo  20   0 6228m 345m  26m S  5.3  4.4 143:59.97
> java                                                   
>  9164 root      20   0  197m  51m  12m S  3.3  0.7  14:14.06
> Xorg                                                   
>  4152 hardtolo  20   0  915m  28m  20m S  1.7  0.4 182:27.00
> knotify4                                               
>    27 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  1.0  0.0  28:58.96
> events/0                                               
> 12581 wild-bil  20   0  302m  14m 9.9m S  1.0  0.2   0:02.43
> gnome-terminal                                         
> 26741 hardtolo  20   0 15300 1420  892 S  1.0  0.0   0:02.47 top
> 
> 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

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