I come back to it after being away for a few days to see that according to htop xorg is using 52% of my available memory 16gb. After logging in to my laptop specifics below the cpu consumption of xorg increases monotonically. This also causes xorg to consume more cpu after removal of applet the xorgs consumption comes down. Xorg server running high cpu with nvidia latest driver keywords. After a while of using iceweasel, amarok and libre office my system starts to perform sluggish and hangs occasionally. The cpu usage is abnormally high for xorg after starting and opening one page in chrome and two terminals. For full operation, most standard x11 fonts and tools need to be installed. Ive tried switching the nvidia drivers from proprietary to x.
Xorg uses 80100% cpu and the system isnt performing well. Dec 21, 2014 i started having some problems recently with xorg using way too much cpu power on my linux desktop. In this article we will describe some of the improvements contributed by canonical, how the problems were surprising, how they were approached and what other performance work is coming in. But some minutes or hours later, if i connect the ubuntu for example with my windows client, nothing works correct. If its the videoplayer mplayer performs better than mpv than vlc than gstreamer, the problem will. High cpu usage by xorg 100mb seems fine, im afraid you will have to wait for someone else as i dont have intel graphic and have no idea what to look for. Top shows that xorg server is getting high cpu usage. Debian user forums view topic solved high cpu load xorg. Boosting the real time performance of gnome shell 3. It is based on ubuntu lts, its lightweight and easy to use linux distributions. Rather than attempting to describe all the different hardware configurations which are supported for 64bit pc, this section contains general information and pointers to where additional. This installer is very flexible and can be used to install all flavours of ubuntu including lubuntu core which is smaller than standard lubuntu. So if xorg is cpu hungry when this blob is running, then who knows what the problem is.
At first i thought was the video driver, i am using xf86videointel. I recently did a full upgrade with pacman syu and now my xorg process has some strange high cpu usage, making my terminal typing quite laggy. I took one of qts demos 2dpainting and slightly modified it such that i can use it as a benchmark. By running the command top at the terminal as root, it was easy to see this. Im stumped on an interaction between nomachine and xorg.
I use metacity only in arch, whereas ubuntu has compiz installed, but i seldom use it. Mar 30, 2020 is a proxy x server that uses one or more other x servers as its display devices. If immediately after the high cpu usage of x occurs, you only kill processes that are not xorg, which do you have to kill specifically for the cpu. I started having some problems recently with xorg using way too much cpu power on my linux desktop. Even if you had disabled the xshm extension in xorg. Nomachine forums xorg high cpu utilization, matrox bug. When dragging around a nautilus window just moving the window host uses 30% cpu, compiz 40% and xorg 25%. Use youtubedl or anything to download a video rule out the network the run eg.
Org foundation open source public implementation of x11 is the x server in the official reference implementation of the x window system. How to remove,install and reconfigure xorg without reinstalling ubuntu posted on september 15, 2009 by ruchi 37 comments the x. As soon as i connect a nomachine client to my server the xorg cpu percentage goes to 90 to 100% and stays their as long as the client is connected. High xorg cpu usage, slow graphics performance, on. It is important to note that x having high cpu load is the symptom, and may not itself be the root cause. Add the following to a file say nf, again the name does not matter to etcx11nf. Xorg process is showing high cpu usage by the top command solution verified updated 20140825t20. The overall speed and responsiveness will surprise you. Xorg high cpu usage, found no solutions searching ubuntu forums. Debian user forums view topic solved high cpu load. Since then every once in a while xorg uses 100% cpu for a while. Installation on old computers lubuntu documentation. After logging in to my laptop specifics below the cpu consumption of xorg increases monotonically, even if the computer is idle and.
Oct 25, 2019 boosting the real time performance of gnome shell 3. I have tracked down the issue with the proprietary atiamd drivers fglrx. Download xserverxorgcore packages for debian, ubuntu. So i updated and switched back to nvidia96xx driver. When i use ubuntu classic, the cpu usage of compiz is not that high, but it is still around 50%. My system, intel i54690k, nvidia rtx 2080 ti, nvidia410 driver installed from the graphics ppa, cuda 10 installed using the local deb file off nvidia website, and ubuntu 18.
Xorg high cpu usage and stuttering with the nvidia driver. Is there any additional information i could provide to help find the cause of such high cpu usage. The 5th lightweight linux for old computers is peppermint. Download xserver xorg core packages for debian, ubuntu. After the installation i can connect the ubuntu machine without any problems with a android device or windows desktop. I have no other gnomeshell extension than those that comes with a default 18. X is consistently using cpu higher than normal where normal is 110% typically.
Xorg process is showing high cpu usage by the top command. Ive tried the newest graphics card driver and now at least the kworker and migration processes have much less cpu load. May 08, 2010 having added the system monitor applet to my taskbar panel, turns out while running ubuntu my latop was running at about 4050% cpu. The finding help topic details where you can get support for ubuntu.
I was able to login via ssh, and i ran the appropriate driver install from. After reading as many posts as i could, i installed htop and found that xorg is using 2530% cpu all the time. I am not running anything else so the bug should be either on feh or on the xserver. Xorg then shall not try to autodetect the hardware. However there are a few mistakes i had to fix before it worked for me. I read more than one time about memory consumption of the different linux desktop. Use integrated graphics for display and nvidia gpu for.
How to remove,install and reconfigure xorg without. Im observing quite high 70100% cpu usage by xorg process when resizingmoving around windows i think basically everytime something needs to be redrawn on the. But to my dislike i found xorg to be using a lot of cpu, often consuming 25% 1 full core of my quad core amd phenom ii processor. User interface is lagging, even typing this text in textarea has noticeable delay. For example you can add a file called nf in etcmodprobe. This problem is especially noticable when i move windows. Download xorg x11serverdevel packages for centos, fedora. Nov 01, 20 i have never seen a xorg instance taking more than 5% of the cpu to return 25 xshmgetimage per second, even on hw of 10 years ago that we keep here for testing. Xorg high cpu usage, sluggish performance on fresh install. Another option that i would try would be to force xorg to use the intel card for the screen. Xorg causing high cpu in ubuntu david vassallos blog. Solved high cpu and freezing issues well right before i changed drivers back to nvidia96xx, i did a pacman syu check there was a new xorg update waiting for me.
Im getting some very bad desktop performance on my linux mint installation, due to high cpu usage, more evident when moving windows around and getting some awfully laggy performance, even more when moving one window over another, like a file manager over opera or firefox. On this machine it only reaches 60fps wheras on the other machine it reaches 600fps. Less than ideal considering ubuntu should be speedy. I also tried installing sddm replacing lightdm, this also improved nothing. I am running feh image viewer on debian and after some hours of normal cpu usage 3% aprox. By running the command top at the terminal as root, it was easy. If you are new to linux and want to install linux on your older hardware then peppermint is a good choice for you. High xorg cpu usage, slow graphics performance, on cedarview d2550 nm chipset10. I tried to nouveau drivers and nvidia 440 both the same.
Ubuntu details of package xserverxorgdev in xenial. Blacklisted modules will not be loaded by the kernel. Xorg high cpu usage systemvideo not running smoothly. Peppermint uses lxde desktop environment that is lightweight and easy to use. When running certain applications or displaying some sites with firefox the xorg cpu usage will hit the sky and machine starts responding slowly. This high cpu utilization makes both the direct attached gui and the nomachine remote gui almost unusable. I suspected wrong graphic drivers or problem with xorgwayland. My laptop fan was working like crazy and i was not doing anything. However, after some minutes it starts growing nxnode. Nugget post having added the system monitor applet to my taskbar panel, turns out while running ubuntu my latop was running at about 4050% cpu. Low cpu usage in comparable range of wms and kde actual behaviour. High xorg cpu usage 11% steps to reproduce the behaviour. Therefore, any architecture or platform to which the linux kernel, libc, gcc, etc.
Versionrelease number of selected component if applicable. Less than ideal considering ubuntu should be speedy turns out, the xorg process was hogging the cpu. High cpu loads are specially annoying as they trigger fans on notebooks, cpu. I know xfce will probably resolve this problem, but ive gotten use to unity, and actually quite like it, so preferably i dont want to change. Bug 1507819 xorg server running high cpu with nvidia latest driver needinfo summary. Viewing the cpu load inside the guest i see xorg at 70%, nautilus 50% and compiz 20%.
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