Why is Dapper so CPU hungry?

[Julio Biason]

On 2/21/06, Julio Biason <julio.biason at gmail.com> wrote:
> The bad side: Xorg got CPU hungry. Even when doing nothing (except,
> maybe, displaying the System Monitor), it goes to 50%-70% of CPU
> usage. I had to change powernowd settings to only up CPU speed (its a
> Pentium M, with scalling) when hitting 100%, or it would peg the CPU
> at full scale all the time.

Ok guys, I did two things, don't know which one made the system behave
correctly again:

First, I removed every 'libglitz' package in the system.

Second, I booted the 386 kernel, not the 686.

Things are way more smoother now.

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Julio Biason <julio.biason at gmail.com>