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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