Re: 100% CPU usage of Xorg after 15 minutes



On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:26:23 +0000, Rob typed this message:

I have updated my system from OpenSUSE 10.3 to OpenSUSE 11.1. Before, it
worked OK (never touch a working system...)

Now, the X server has a problem. After not touching the mouse and
keyboard for about 15 minutes, the CPU usage of the X server jumps to
100%. This can be seen in "top" running from another system over SSH. It
can also be seen in the CPU graph of "gkrellm" running on the system. I
see the CPU use of one code step to 100% after some time, and when I
touch the mouse or keyboard it falls back to 0 again.

Videocard is NVIDIA 8500GT, NVIDA driver 177.82 has been installed from
the NVIDIA repository.
I would like to try the newer 180.xx beta driver but I see no way to
install it from the repository.

Anyone else seen this problem? And has it occurred on 11.0 as well?
Better yet: how can this be solved?

I upgraded 10.3 with 11.1 RC2 and I noticed the higher cpu usage when
testing 11.1RC2. There's definitely something amiss with the 10.3 to
11.1 upgrade. I did a clean install of 11.1 wiping out the 11.1RC2/10.3
upgrade and the cpu usage problem went away. There's lots of other
problems with 11.1 but it's running smoother than the 11.1RC2 upgrade.

BTW, I have / (root) and /home on separate partitions so I only needed to
format the /.
.



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