Slow xorg after upgrade

[Mike Jeays]

On 17-10-17 09:09 PM, Chris Hill wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Two days ago I had to upgrade xorg (long story). Since then, it seems 
> that text entry is laggy, as if the xterm - or any application, for 
> that matter - can't keep up with my typing. It feels like the old days 
> of typing on an ASR-33; there is a lag of less than one second between 
> typing a character and it appearing on screen. Sometimes when text 
> draws, I see a moment of raster-looking junk. This is especially 
> visible in text that updates from a program, such as the in-progress 
> statistics from fetch. Or even when pasting text via middle-click. Or 
> even when moving the cursor with the arrow keys while writing this email.
>
> Is this just an example of new software being more more bloated? It 
> seems to me that under the old regime things were snappy-quick.
>
> Before: xorg-7.7_1
> After: xorg-7.7_3
>
> Both: fvwm-2.6.5_7
>
> Both:
> $ uname -mriKv 10.3-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p11 #0: Mon Oct 
> 24 18:49:24 UTC 2016 
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 
> GENERIC 1003000
>
> Thank you.
>
Unless it is a very low-spec machine, this sounds completely abnormal, 
and due to some kind
of software configuration error. I would not expect to notice any 
difference between two fairly
recent versions of xorg