X freezing

From: Gilbert Solorzano (soloink_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/18/04

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    Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 07:52:51 -0700

    Hi All

    I have been using my current linux setup for about 6 months I have not
    updated any software in the last 1 month. A couple of days I noticed
    that my Xsession was not responding, it was frozen. I managed to log
    into the system using ssh and noticed that X was taking 94-99% of the
    cpu (used top). I tried to kill the Xsession and any other application
    that used the gui, I was able to kill the processes but my monitor still
    showed the last frame where it froze. Thinking that there was some
    process not releasing its memory I restarted the linux box and started
    an Xsession with startx (using afterstep), everything looked ok the
    session responed well. When I tried to open netscape the Xsession begain
    to freeze. I had to follow the steps mentioned before to get it back.
    Given that I had to switch to afterstep about a month prior , I ran the
    normal gnome Xsession which froze even quicker that afterstep. Frankly I
    am at a loss on how to begin to trouble shoot this. The box is about +4
    years old so if a hardware component failed it would not surprise me.

    Configuration:
    XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Fedora Core 1: 4.3.0-42)
    Linux solo 2.4.22-1.2188.nptlsmp #1 SMP Wed Apr 21 20:12:56 EDT 2004
    i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
    RAM 386
    Section "Device"
             Identifier "Videocard0"
             Driver "r128"
             VendorName "Videocard vendor"
             BoardName "ATI Rage 128"
    EndSection

    Thanks for any help
    Gil

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