USB mouse -> 50% CPU load ?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 05:55:38PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> I usually use "top" or "w" for system load, but was curious to try out
> "System Monitor" that comes with KDE-4.4.3.  Simply moving my USB mouse
> uses 50% of my dual-core 3.2GHz cpu.  I just can't believe this.  Anyone
> experienced similar thing?

Well moving the mouse causes lost of X events to be sent to the
applications you move over.

I certainly see the load of Xorg and a few other things go up when I
move the mouse, but not 50%.  Maybe 10%.  May depend on the application
of course, and your X driver.

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Len Sorensen
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