<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I'm chiming in to confirm that I'm experiencing the same high cpu usage issue with gnome-terminal and that it's a recent regression (since about the start of september 2010 -- maybe a week before that).<br><br>I also get high CPU usage with other libvte terminals -- roxterm and xfce4-terminal -- although xfce-terminal is not as high. <br><br>Misc notes:<br><br>- The issue is only present when I use pseudo transparency<br>- on my single-core CPU, when I run top in gnome-terminal, it reports that Xorg is using about 15% CPU and gnome-terminal is using 5%. When I run top in some non-libvte terminal (mrxvt and others) with pseudo transparency, the CPU usage is almost zero<br>- in xfce4-terminal, I'm getting ~7% CPU xorg and 3% xfce4-terminal CPU usage (using pseudo transparency).<br><br>I'm
posting this here because I'm not sure where this report should live. It's likely a libvte issue, but maybe it's lower in the stack (cairo? gtk?)<br><br>I'm using the "intel" video driver in xorg. My graphics chipset:<br><br>00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])<br>00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)<br><br><br>-- System Information:<br>Debian Release: squeeze/sid<br> APT prefers testing<br> APT policy: (500, 'testing')<br>Architecture: i386 (i686)<br><br>Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)<br>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br>Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash<br><br>Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on: <br>ii gnome-terminal-data 2.30.2-1
Data files for the GNOME terminal <br>ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit<br>ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib <br>ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2 simple interprocess messaging syst<br>ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste<br>ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C
routines<br>ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1+b1 The GTK+ graphical user interface <br>ii libice6 2:1.0.6-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library<br>ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio<br>ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library<br>ii libvte9 1:0.24.3-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
<br>ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library<br><br>Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:<br>ii gvfs 1.6.3-1 userspace virtual filesystem - ser <br>ii yelp 2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME<br></div>
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