Bug#486257: pokerth causes high Xorg activity

[Steve Greenland]

On 14-Jun-08, 17:56 (CDT), Evgeni Golov <sargentd at die-welt.net> wrote: 
> Well, I cannot really reproduce that here. Could that be related
> to some fancyness you're Xorg driver dislikes? For reference, I'm
> running xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.8.1~git20080528.faea0088-1 on a ATI
> Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY (basically a Radeon 7000 with
> 16MB RAM). My CPU is at 600MHz and completely idle.

Same driver, 6.8.0-1 from Debian unstable. Card is a Radeon 9200SE
(RV280). CPU is a 2.6Ghz Celeron. Standard Debian kernel, 2.6.25-2-686.

> Do you use XAA or EXA acceleration? The later is told to be more CPU
> intensive on some chips.

Nope.

> I hope you can find some more details. Btw, does it happen allways when
> the PokerTH window has focus, or only when it's your turn and it waits
> for your action. And how about network/internet games, same usage?

Once I start a game, it's continuous as long as the window has focus.

Hmmm, actually, even if no game is running, if I waggle the mouse over
the pokerth window, I get 80-90% Xorg usage. I do not get this effect
over other windows like firefox.

Don't know about network/internet games, I've only ever played locally.
I'll try that later.

Steve

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