Running with the brakes on ...

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 12/4/06, Adam Jackson <ajackson at redhat.com> wrote:
> So you've found that some use profile makes X use all the CPU.  Now you
> need to find out _what_ in X is taking all the time.  You need to either
> use a tool like oprofile or sysprof to extract that information, or you
> need to instrument the X server to report on what requests and clients
> are using most of its time.  The latter requires code changes to a
> project that many people find intimidating and/or unpleasant to work
> with, which is why I suggested using oprofile in the first place.

is xrestop at all useful in this situation?

-jef