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Subject: Re: xorg running > 48h starts consuming CPU cycles with BETA3
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Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 04.09.2009 17:34 (localtime):
>> On 9/4/09, Harald Schmalzbauer <h.schmalzbauer@omnilan.de> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have one problem with xorg running on BETA3.
>>> Repeatably, after more than 48hour uptime, my workstation showes
>>> increased load. The longer the uptime, the more cpu cycles xorg 
>>> consumes.
>>> It's absolutely application independent. After 3 or 4 days, almost one
>>> complete CPU is occupied by xorg, but I have no idea what xorg is doing.
>>> Is there any way to "look inside" xorg to see where the CPU cycles 
>>> vanish?

Apart from ktrace/gdb/etc, dunno.

>>> With uptimes shorter than 2 days I can't see xorg consuming any
>>> remarkable CPU cycles.
>>> Xorg is 1.6.1, compiled on BETA3:
>>> 1157 root          1  53    0   828M   234M select  1  40:04 15.38% Xorg
>>
>> What video driver Xorg is using?
> 
> nvidia (not nv)

Does it happen with nv?  If not, it's likely to be a driver issue.

Kris