I am using xfce4 and x11-terms/terminal. After an upgrade I noticed that X process gradually increases its CPU usage. At some point CPU usage stabilizes, each time around a different value (typically around 50%). At this moment keyboard and mouse in X become barely responsive. Killing all Terminal's restore normal state of things, but also not immediately (it takes around quorter a minute for X to recover). By many experiments I reduced the problem to x11-libs/vte update from 0.26.2 to 0.28.1-r200. Reverting back 0.26.2 "solves" the problem. xorg-server is compiled without xnest and xfvb support but I checked that these flags do not affect the problem manifestation. What I have already done to no avail: cd /usr/portage; for i in `echo x11-* xfce-*`; do j=`qlist -CI $i/`; if [ -n "$j" ]; then emerge -1 $j; fi; done; cd - I would be happy to provide additional information. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Ensure that your system is up to date. 2. Run Terminal (I do this in xfce4 with xfwm4). 3. Type something in the Terminal, wait half a minute or so. 4. Check CPU usage of X process. Actual Results: CPU usage is around 30%-90%, keyboard and mouse are barely responsive (delay is like you're typing over a very slow network link). Expected Results: System is responsive, CPU usage is nearly zero when idle.
Created attachment 277987 [details] emerge --info Also: >eix xorg-server [I] x11-base/xorg-server Available versions: 1.9.4 1.9.5 ~1.10.2 [M]~1.10.99.901 {dmx doc ipv6 kdrive minimal nptl static-libs tslib +udev xnest xorg xvfb} Installed versions: 1.9.5(12:50:41 AM 06/24/2011)(nptl udev xorg -dmx -doc -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal -static-libs -tslib -xnest -xvfb) Homepage: http://xorg.freedesktop.org/ Description: X.Org X servers
I have this problem too, but it occurs only under Xfce, not GNOME. It has arisen since the upgrade to vte a day or so ago. If you want my emerge --info I can provide it, but in simplest terms the system is an all-stable x86 box.
Same problem here. I use x11-terms/terminal and xfce. # emerge --info x11-libs/vte Portage 2.2.0_alpha41 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r6-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo sunrise darkGentooOverlay Installed sets: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA Q3AEULA PUEL dlj-1.1 sun-bcla-java-vm skype-eula googleearth AdobeFlash-10.1" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--tree --keep-going --ask-enter-invalid" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/" LANG="it_IT.UTF-8" LC_ALL="it_IT.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="it en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage/dark" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amr avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl cxx dbus device-mapper dirac djvu dri dts dvd dvdr dvi emacs encode exif fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran ftp gd gdbm gdu gif gimp gimpprint gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hddtemp iconv icu id3tag ipv6 java javascript jce jikes jpeg jpeg2k latex lcms libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors logrotate lzma mad midi mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg msn mudflap ncurses nls nodrm nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp oss pam pango pch pcre pdf perl png policykit posix ppds python qt3support qt4 readline samba schroedinger sdl session sockets socks5 speex spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg symlink sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff tokenizer truetype udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis webdav wifi win32codecs wmf wxwidgets wxwindows x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="it en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i810 vesa fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 was built with the following: USE="introspection python -debug -doc -glade"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 372989 ***
