Strange 100% CPU usage with Xorg 7 (latest update)

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 16:47 -0200, Julio Biason wrote:
> CPU was just a few percent, but it was at full scale. I have a Pentium
> M too, 1.6GHz and the CPU speed applet pointed it was running at full
> 1.6Ghz when it usually sits on 800Mhz.

I see, works for me, at 600MHz

> [E.g., when nothing is running, it should go way below that, to save
> battery life. And, oh, I was talking about CPU scaling, not CPU usage]

Yeah, sorry, I misunderstood. I always had my applet set to display
MHz. 


> But opening Bittorrent (the
> graphical interface) again, which keeps updating the screen all the
> time (ETA, percent, etc), slowed the system and CPU scaling went to
> 100%. That's why I'm guessing the problem lies on Cairo/Pango.

Probably