In Dapper Xorg is extremely Power Hungry

[David Losada Gacio]

For example:
In Dapper Xorg uses 3 times more processor power with Superkaramba:
With certain themes (those very big, I suppose) like sys_mon Xorg is so power hungry that the system is sluggish (e.g. when watching movie the image stops every 4 seconds for 0.5 seconds, dropping frames).
On breezy, same version of Superkaramba and sys_mon used 15% of CPU; now it uses 45-60%.
System spec: Athlong 64 3000+ 1GB Ram Nvidia 6200 256Mb DDR2 with Nvidia-glx driver (nv). DRI and GLX activated.

I have tested the live CD in another system (PIV 2400 512 Mb Ram) to verify the slowness, and the system peaks CPU use with every window movement.
Other bugs like #38131 and #1363 could be the related.

I think it could be due to the "virtual" transparence of this theme and his area over the desktop. I think this is not kde-related, as long as I had kde 3.5 on breezy.

I will summit xorg.conf and sys_mon if asked.

I'm sorry for my english, hello from Spain.

[David Losada Gacio (losadaz)]

Theme for Superkaramba that makes the system almost unusable

[David Losada Gacio (losadaz)]

The config file of Xorg.

[David Losada Gacio (losadaz)]

After a time I tested other themes for SuperKaramba, and those didn't had this problem. It must be a problem with superkaramba using some xorg functions included with dapper that are not optimized in the new version of Xorg (7.0), so the background is refreshed too many times... (is a thought)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Not a Xorg bug.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Still an issue in Intrepid?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

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