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Date:      Fri, 15 May 2009 21:37:24 +0100
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xorg 1.6.0 uses 100% CPU in gnome+gdm
Message-ID:  <1242419844.14339.1.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <200905151314.01390.kstewart@owt.com>
References:  <1242416473.14085.5.camel@localhost> <200905151314.01390.kstewart@owt.com>

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On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 13:14 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Friday 15 May 2009 12:41:13 pm Tom Evans wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > I upgraded kernel, world and ports from ~7.1 RELEASE to RELENG_7 of
> > yesterday, and now Xorg constantly chews CPU. I'm running:
> >
> > FreeBSD jacob.nubtek.com 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #2: Thu May 14
> > 20:37:49 BST 2009
> > root@jacob.nubtek.com:/usr/obj/usr/data/FreeBSD/RELENG_7/src/sys/LOST
> > i386
> >
> > I've double checked that all ports are up to date, and was going to
> > blame some bug in the nvidia binary driver, but it also exhibits it if I
> > use the 'nv' or 'vesa' driver as well - I've not tested nouveau. The
> > nvidia.ko module was loaded whilst running with nv and vesa, would that
> > matter?
> >
> 
> I have had this happen several times. It always went away after I force built 
> xorg and its dependancies. My personal opinion is that something was built 
> out of order and while your ports may be current, something used an old 
> linkage.
> 
> Kent
> 

meh - ok, another `portupgrade -Rf '*xorg*'` kicked off.

Thanks for the tip.

Cheers

tom




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