With Gnome System Monitor 2.22 under Debian testing (Lenny) I had the problem when I clicked on the Resources tab the CPU usage would got to 100% on my laptop and desktop.
Well I have been able to fix the problem on my laptop which has and Intel video card by adding Option “AccelMethod” “EXA” to the Device section in my xorg.conf file.
Example:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
Driver "intel"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
EndSection
When I have worked out how to fix the problem on my desktop using a Nvidia video card I will post the solution.
Thanks goes out to MistaED for pointing out to me that this a problem with the way Cairo rendering is done.
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12:39, Tuesday, April 29, 2008Alex "MistaED" /
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?p=30698#post30698
Turns out nvidia’s 2D accel went downhill due to init_mm() being taken out in the latest kernels which nvidia’s 2D accel must’ve depended on for memory management, I think kernel 2.6.24 was when this part was taken out 🙁
Oh the joys of accelerated X (or lack thereof)