Andy Green wrote:
Philip Walden wrote:
Top says Xorg0 @ 68%, mplayer @ 28%.
Might it be the offscreen compositing stuff somehow? If there is
something like this floating around in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection
try setting it to Disable and restart X.
Looks like it is a xorg bug such that it does not set MTRR reducing AGP
performance by 2X:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6221
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5801
Explains why I am seeing this recently too. Fixed in xorg 7.1
