<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">Josselin,<br><br>I downgraded cairo to 1.8.10-4, and the problem went away. Using pseudo-transparency in gnome-terminal and running top, my Xorg CPU <= 1% and the gnome-terminal CPU % is:<br><br>ps -eo pcpu,args |grep gnome-term<br> 0.2 gnome-terminal<br><br>Previously, they were 15% and 5%, respectively.<br><br>$ dpkg -l |grep libcairo2<br>ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics library<br><br>### Just to document the version
with the regression and the manual downgrade:<br>$ apt-cache show libcairo2 |grep -i version<br>Version: 1.8.10-5<br>Version: 1.8.10-4<br><br>So it's definitely a problem with libcairo2 1.8.10-5, and it's a very significant regression.<br><br>This bug history should be moved to libcairo2.<br><br>Regards,<br>-Greg<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Greg Orlowski <greg_orlowski@yahoo.com>; 594245@bugs.debian.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> alex <766f6964@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thu, September 9, 2010 10:44:37 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Bug#594245: gnome-terminal cpu usage<br></font><br>
Le jeudi 09 septembre 2010 à 06:12 -0700, Greg Orlowski a écrit :<br>> I'm chiming in to confirm that I'm experiencing the same high cpu<br>> usage issue with gnome-terminal and that it's a recent regression<br>> (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<br>> xfce4-terminal -- although xfce-terminal is not as high. <br><br>I can now reproduce this on my unstable box, with the radeon driver<br>(which, together with other reports, really excludes a driver issue).<br><br>The possible culprits are:<br> * cairo 1.8.10-4 → 1.8.10-5 (very likely)<br> * xorg-server 2:1.7.7-3 → 2:1.7.7-5<br> * gtk+2.0 2.20.1-1 → 2.20.1-1+b1 (very unlikely)<br> * freetype 2.4.2-1 → 2.4.2-2 (very unlikely)<br><br>If you could test downgrading cairo, that would be nice.
I’ll have a<br>look in the following days, too.<br><br>Cheers,<br>-- <br> .''`.<br>: :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know<br>`. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.”<br> `- -- J???rg Schilling<br><br></div></div>
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