Re: xorg sucking cpu

["Bill Crawford" <billcrawford1970 gmail com>]

2008/5/28 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 gmail com>:
> I noticed that (on kde desktop), when the cursor is placed on the panel
> icon, and a balloon pops up showing info on the app, xorg sucks a steady
> cpu close to 100%.

It's a shaped window, which will add overhead to rendering both of the
window itself and of the stuff underneath due to having to clip to
regions (LOTS of regions, since the corners are curved :o)).