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laplace

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From: West Germany

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 22

awesome 3 - xcompmgr causes heavy cpu usage

hi@all,

I just installed xcompmgr because the fading effects are really nice

after a few hours X causes around 70% cpu usage and i have to restart xcompmgr.

It seems to be a X problem is there an option I forgot to set?

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From: Dayton, OH

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 34

Re: awesome 3 - xcompmgr causes heavy cpu usage

what driver / card are you using?

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laplace

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From: West Germany

Registered: 2009-01-05

Posts: 22

Re: awesome 3 - xcompmgr causes heavy cpu usage

nvidia 180.22-1
kernel 2.6.28

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From: Dayton, OH

Registered: 2008-12-10

Posts: 34

Re: awesome 3 - xcompmgr causes heavy cpu usage

Hmm, I'm running the same drivers and xcompmgr on awesome as well, but not getting any of that. Heres my xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder62)  Tue Jan  6 09:43:54 PST 2009


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "type1"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 150.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

The only thing that comes to mind is that your card might be having either powermizer issues, or overheating maybe?

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Arch64 + Awesome on Compal FL92 Laptop ~ Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2ghz 4gig ram
All HAIL the tiling window manager.

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: awesome 3 - xcompmgr causes heavy cpu usage

I've had similar problems - xcompmgr sucking up CPU and stuttering. Sadly, I've had to ditch it and use Compiz Fusion standalone for that (or Xfce's compositor is more lightweight) Xcompmgr was made as a proof-of-concept, and recieves very little development.