10:26 a.m.
In the past few days I've noticed that the X server process is
consuming 20-80% of the CPU on a regular basis as opposed to a more
reasonable once in a blue moon. I haven't updated in about a week and
was reluctant to do so until I saw a fix for the libXfont/xfs issues.
I don't suppose anyone else is seeing unusually high X server usage
recently or is aware of some change that would explain what I'm
seeing. FWIW, I am running a A31p Thinkpad with 1G RAM and a 2+Ghz
processor. The logs do not seem to show anything out of the ordinary.
-pmr
12:15 p.m.
Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
In the past few days I've noticed that the X server process is
consuming 20-80% of the CPU on a regular basis as opposed to a more
reasonable once in a blue moon. I haven't updated in about a week and
was reluctant to do so until I saw a fix for the libXfont/xfs issues.
I don't suppose anyone else is seeing unusually high X server usage
recently or is aware of some change that would explain what I'm
seeing. FWIW, I am running a A31p Thinkpad with 1G RAM and a 2+Ghz
processor. The logs do not seem to show anything out of the ordinary.
-pmr
I saw this a while ago and remembered a posting on the xorg mailing
list about a change in the X server's scheduler would cause this sort
of behavior in certain pathological cases on Linux (it was a while ago
or I'd hunt for the citation).
If you're running GDM, then you can do:
cat >> /etc/gdm/custom.conf
[server-Standard]
priority=-10
^D
% gdm-restart
and see if that works.
-Philip
12:47 p.m.
On 11/26/06, Paul Michael Reilly <pmr(a)pajato.com> wrote:
In the past few days I've noticed that the X server process is
consuming 20-80% of the CPU on a regular basis as opposed to a more
reasonable once in a blue moon. I haven't updated in about a week and
was reluctant to do so until I saw a fix for the libXfont/xfs issues.
I don't suppose anyone else is seeing unusually high X server usage
recently or is aware of some change that would explain what I'm
A couple of people have reported a combination of Firefox + Flash
plugin to be causing various problems with high X server load lately.
If you are running Firefox with flash, try disabling flash and see if
the problem continues.
Hope that helps,
n0dalus.
1:57 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:17:38AM +1030, n0dalus wrote:
A couple of people have reported a combination of Firefox + Flash
plugin to be causing various problems with high X server load lately.
If you are running Firefox with flash, try disabling flash and see if
the problem continues.
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ is an easy way to disable Flash until
you really want it.
Steve
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10 a.m.
On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 11:26 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
In the past few days I've noticed that the X server process is
consuming 20-80% of the CPU on a regular basis as opposed to a more
reasonable once in a blue moon. I haven't updated in about a week and
was reluctant to do so until I saw a fix for the libXfont/xfs issues.
I don't suppose anyone else is seeing unusually high X server usage
recently or is aware of some change that would explain what I'm
seeing. FWIW, I am running a A31p Thinkpad with 1G RAM and a 2+Ghz
processor. The logs do not seem to show anything out of the ordinary.
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