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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

Overlay causing excessive cpu usage on Xorg process using ATI cards

Bug #550124 reported by TommyBoy on 2010-03-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #509111: Recording cause system to slow down with ATI Graphics. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

Hi I have an ATI Radeon 2600 HD.

I am finding when ever I am using overlay with the ATI card that I can getting drastic system slowdowns. This can be seen using top on my system.

A good example of this slowdown can be seen using gtk-recordmydesktop. The preview panel that appears in that app will slow the system down and xorg gets over active at that point and then you will not realy be able to make a recording as the cpu is maxed out.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 28 10:05:00 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-17-generic root=UUID=84de763d-0e1f-4c77-b91a-e32343dae65e ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 01/09/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: NF-MCP61
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd01/09/2007:svn:pn:pvr:rvn:rnNF-MCP61:rvr:cvn:ct3:cvr:
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.32-17-generic

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TommyBoy (thomaslloyd) wrote on 2010-03-28:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (49.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (54.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog.txt Edit (182.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog1.txt Edit (50.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
GdmLog2.txt Edit (50.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (536 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (747 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RelatedPackageVersions.txt Edit (232 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (129.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (270.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (182.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (55.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (6.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (17.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (56.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2010-03-28

affects:

xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)

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Mitch Towner (kermiac) wrote on 2010-03-29:

This appears to be related to (or perhaps the same issue as) bug #509111.

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2010-03-30

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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