OK, disabling compiz fixes the problem.

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM, David Feil-Seifer
<david.feilseifer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll let you know, it is an intermittent error, will try when the
> problem re-occurs.
>
> -Dave
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Josh Faust <jfaust@willowgarage.com> wrote:
>> Do you have compiz enabled?  If so, what happens if you disable it?
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:09 PM, David Feil-Seifer
>> <david.feilseifer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am having problems with rviz. When I have a robot model loaded (many
>>> difference models such as pr2, p2os, or others), a point cloud (such
>>> as from stereo_image_proc), or a costmap displayed, the update rate of
>>> rviz goes way down. Also all GUI response time (moving windows,
>>> dragging windows, etc) starts lagging quite a bit. Looking at top,
>>> rviz is not taking up a lot of CPU, but Xorg goes to 100% as soon as
>>> rviz is started. I have noticed that maximizing/unmaximizing the
>>> window sometimes helps the problem, but will also frequently crash
>>> rviz as well. I have noticed that turning twinview off will fix the
>>> problem temporarily, but then will come back after a while. Turning
>>> twinview back on will sometimes fix the problem or sometimes crash
>>> rviz. These problems do NOT happen in the boxturtle version of rviz. I
>>> am running the most recent version of ROS -r10792 and rviz -r31988
>>> from SVN on a machine that is a well-updated version of Ubuntu 10.04.
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> my graphics card:
>>>
>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [Quadro FX
>>> 570] (rev a1)
>>>        Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device 0474
>>>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
>>>        Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>>>        Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>>>        Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
>>>        I/O ports at dc80 [size=128]
>>>        [virtual] Expansion ROM at fde00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>>>        Capabilities: <access denied>
>>>        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
>>>        Kernel modules: nvidia-current, nvidiafb, nouveau
>>>
>>>
>>> my CPU:
>>>
>>> processor       : 3
>>> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>>> cpu family      : 6
>>> model           : 15
>>> model name      : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q6600  @ 2.40GHz
>>> stepping        : 11
>>> cpu MHz         : 2393.567
>>> cache size      : 4096 KB
>>> physical id     : 0
>>> siblings        : 4
>>> core id         : 3
>>> cpu cores       : 4
>>> apicid          : 3
>>> initial apicid  : 3
>>> fpu             : yes
>>> fpu_exception   : yes
>>> cpuid level     : 10
>>> wp              : yes
>>> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
>>> cmov
>>> pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx
>>> lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good aperfmperf pni dtes64
>>> monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow
>>> vnmi flexpriority
>>> bogomips        : 4787.98
>>> clflush size    : 64
>>> cache_alignment : 64
>>> address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
>>> power management:
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