Gilboa Davara wrote:
It's a problem with glxgears itself. Think nothing of it. Try a nice OpenGL screen saver and you'll see the CPU usage drop. I use the GLMatrix screen-saver and the CPU load on my dual Opteron / GF6800GT machine never passes the 10% line.
You're right. The GLMatrix hardly loads the CPU .. same goes for Supertux. But Celestia spikes up the load to 100% ...
Gilboa
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