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vogt

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From: Toronto, Canada

Registered: 2006-11-25

Posts: 389

xgl somewhat choppy, memory hog

running with beryl-svn on xgl-git running ati-fglrx 8.31.5-2

with a radeon 9600xt; 933 mHz pentium 3, 256 mib ram video and system

xgl is a huge memory hog, ruling out KDE, taking about 30 or so percent of my system ram and a bunch of cpu when handling lots of windows,

any way to reduce that? faster aiglx on opensource radeon drivers, or just xorg.conf optimisations?

it wouldn't be worth it to cut the resolution from 1600x1200 as it stands.

just for some lively discussion

# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg lalsdf 
# Auto-generated by Archie mkxcfg

Section "ServerLayout"

# Serial Mouse not detected
# USB Mouse not detected
#    Screen      1  "aticonfig-Screen[1]" 1 0
#    Screen         "aticonfig-Screen[1]" Leftof "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
    Identifier     "Xorg Configured"
    Screen      0  "aticonfig-Screen[0]" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "PS/2 Mouse" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"

# Additional fonts: Locale, Gimp, TTF...
# True type and type1 fonts are also handled via xftlib, see /etc/X11/XftConfig!
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/lib/X11/fonts/latin2/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/PEX"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "ddc"  # ddc probing of monitor
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "bitmap" # bitmap-fonts
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
    Load  "record"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"

#    Option "Xinerama"  "true"
    Option        "AllowMouseOpenFail" "true"
    Option        "AIGLX" "off"
    #    for multi head
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option        "CoreKeyboard"
    Option        "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option        "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option        "XkbLayout" "us"
#    Option        "XkbVariant" ""
    Option        "XkbOptions" "altwin:super_win"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "PS/2 Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option        "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
    Option        "Emulate3Timeout" "70"
    Option        "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
    Option        "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
    Option        "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
    Option        "DPMS" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    Option        "UseFastTLS" "on"
    Option        "Capabilities" "0x00000800"
    Option        "FSAAEnable" "on"
    Option        "FSAAScale" "0"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
# 0 dis pbuffer 1,2,3,4 1280,1600,...2048x1536
    Option      "PBuffer" "4"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "aticonfig-Device[1]"
    Driver      "fglrx"
    BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen      1
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[0]"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[0]"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"

#        Modes "1600x1200"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[1]"
    Device     "aticonfig-Device[1]"
    Monitor    "aticonfig-Monitor[1]"
    DefaultDepth     24
    SubSection "Display"

#        Modes "1280x1024"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode         0666
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option        "Composite" "Disable"
EndSection