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2012-08-13 , 17:33
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Originally Posted by mr_pingu View Post
Try to measure with top in xterm. Conky bumps xorg %cpu quite heavily
You can get an even better baseline number for Xorg's idle-state CPU usage by logging into your N900 with ssh (so that nothing is updating the device's display) and running top. When I do that, with a 5 minute update rate, I see a CPU usage of 0.0 % for Xorg.
 

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