[Xquartz-dev] High CPU load on Mac OS X 10.4

Ken Nussear knussear at mac.com
Sun Feb 8 18:59:11 PST 2009


I'm on leopard, But I disabled the pasteboard, and kept .xinitrc as in  
last email, and I still have 100% cpu when unfocused

Ken


On Feb 8, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> One issue on Tiger is that it's using an old quartz-wm which might  
> be causing a weird race with NSPasteboard (it shouldn't though).   
> Could you try disabling the pasteboard proxying in X11->Preferences- 
> >Pasteboard to see if that has any impact?
>
>
> On Feb 8, 2009, at 14:47, Merle Reinhart wrote:
>
>> X11 is now running in the context of a login shell and will execute  
>> your local login scripts.  Could something in the login scripts be  
>> causing this (that could explain why it occurs for some and not  
>> others and on Tiger and Leopard)?
>>
>> I know I get errors in the Console/System logs when X11 starts due  
>> to errors it runs into in my login scripts (but not when I open a  
>> session in Terminal or xterm).  They seem benign so I ignore them,  
>> but some things may not be benign and might cause this effect.
>>
>> Anyway, a thought...
>>
>> Merle
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Simon Ruderich wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> With a new MacPorts installation I also installed X11 through it.
>>> After some initial problems which got fixed by Jeremy Huddleston
>>> X11 worked fine except for one problem. Shortly after starting
>>> X11.app the CPU load climbs up to 110%-160% according to top and
>>> Activity Monitor.
>>>
>>> I described the problem first on the MacPorts development list
>>> and Jeremy Huddleston asked me to describe it here. The problem
>>> sounds exactly like described in
>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2009-January/001952.html
>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2009-January/002042.html
>>> http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/xquartz-dev/2009-January/002044.html
>>> except that I'm running 10.4.
>>>
>>> I hope you have any ideas what can be done to solve this issue.
>>> At the moment I'm back to the default X11 installation :-/
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help,
>>> Simon
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