CPU usage 100% for OGL apps

Wed Oct 12 17:29:22 UTC 2005

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> It's a problem with glxgears itself. Think nothing of it.
> Try a nice OpenGL screen saver and you'll see the CPU usage drop.
> I use the GLMatrix screen-saver and the CPU load on my dual Opteron /
> GF6800GT machine never passes the 10% line.

You're right. The GLMatrix hardly loads the CPU .. same goes for 
Supertux. But Celestia spikes up the load to 100% ...

> 
> Gilboa

-M