Xorg's CPU usage when idle

Hello archers,
Considering I don't have a wooden laptop at all, is it normal that my Xorg uses in average 15% of one of my CPUs even when idle ? (I would be quite surprised to get a positive answer...)
Is there any way to reduce this number ? Because I find it bothering to hear my fan running whereas I'm doing hardly anything with my computer.
Thanks for all your answers.

koral wrote:is it normal that my Xorg uses in average 15% of one of my CPUs even when idle ? (I would be quite surprised to get a positive answer...)
I have Xorg using 8% of CPU (frequency is approximately 2GHz) when "uTorrent" under "wine" is running and 0% otherwise. Do not know why.
Observe it when Xorg is running with "xterm" only.
Last edited by beroal (2011-01-06 14:04:51)

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