window resize poor performance

[Miguel Angel Alvarez]

El Lunes 26 Mayo 2008, Michel Dänzer escribió:
> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 16:56 +0200, Miguel Angel Alvarez wrote:
> > El Martes 20 Mayo 2008, Ray Van Dolson escribió:
> > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 08:20:11PM +0200, Miguel Angel Alvarez wrote:
> > > > El Martes 20 Mayo 2008, Ray Van Dolson escribió:
> > > > > Hi all.  Using Fedora 9 a custom xf86-video-ati driver from the git
> > > > > repo with a Radeon 9800XT  Using the GNOME terminal, resizing is
> > > > > somewhat decent, but in XFCE, its Terminal application is horribly
> > > > > slow resizing.  Definitely seems to be falling back to software.
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I have a quite similar problem, but it affects all windows.
> > > > I'm using opensuse 11.0 beta3 (which ships xserver 1.4.0.90) with a
> > > > Radeon 9200SE (rv280), so by default aiglx and composite are enabled,
> > > > and any window resizing is very very slow, no matter if I use compiz
> > > > or not as window manager.
> > > > I have tryed using XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 before starting X but it
> > > > doesn't help.
> > > > Is there any fix other than disabling composite?
> > >
> > > Can you confirm that disabling composite does in fact resolve the issue
> > > for you?
> > >
> > > It'd also be interesting to see the result of an oprofile run, and also
> > > the steps Michel mentions for me to try if indeed it's falling back to
> > > software (seems likely).
> >
> > Here are the results of a oprofile run
> > To collect data I resized some windows, scrolled a webpage and played a
> > couple of youtube videos.
>
> Please try and focus on a single activity for each profile run as much
> as possible to make it most useful. Also, it looks like these only
> contain symbols from the X server binary itself but not from modules
> like EXA or the driver, which would be necessary to get an idea what's
> going on.
Sorry, it is the first time I use oprofile, so I don't really know well what 
I'm doing.
I restricted profiling with "opcontrol --image=/usr/bin/Xorg", could this be 
the cause of having only symbols from the X server?
How should I run the oprofile?

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