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Date:      Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:16:12 +0100
From:      Frank Shute <frank@woodcruft.co.uk>
To:        Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Slow xorg after upgrade
Message-ID:  <20171018111612.GA1070@woodcruft.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1710172033590.66845@tripel.monochrome.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1710172033590.66845@tripel.monochrome.org>

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On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:09:05PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote:
>
> Hello list,
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> Two days ago I had to upgrade xorg (long story). Since then, it seems=20
> that text entry is laggy, as if the xterm - or any application, for that=
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> matter - can't keep up with my typing. It feels like the old days of=20
> typing on an ASR-33; there is a lag of less than one second between=20
> typing a character and it appearing on screen. Sometimes when text=20
> draws, I see a moment of raster-looking junk. This is especially visible=
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> in text that updates from a program, such as the in-progress statistics=
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> from fetch. Or even when pasting text via middle-click. Or even when=20
> moving the cursor with the arrow keys while writing this email.
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> Is this just an example of new software being more more bloated? It=20
> seems to me that under the old regime things were snappy-quick.
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> Before: xorg-7.7_1
> After: xorg-7.7_3
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> Both: fvwm-2.6.5_7
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> Both:
> $ uname -mriKv=20
> 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 #0: Mon Oct 24 18:49:24 UTC=20
> 2016     root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC=
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> amd64 GENERIC 1003000
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> Thank you.
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Hi Chris,


You saying "...I had to upgrade xorg (long story)" gets my antennae
twitching.

Perhaps you could expand on that a bit.

My first place to look would be: /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see if anything
goes awry when X starts.

I updated xorg the other day with zero problems but there again I rebuilt
all my ports (using poudriere).=20

You're barking up the wrong tree suggesting software bloat in the case of
X is the problem. A regression? Maybe. But X becoming incredibly slow due
to bloat in a point-release? No.

You don't mention how you go about rebuilding your ports or what your
video hardware (and associated driver) is.


Regards,

--=20

Frank



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