Xorg with ATI / RV370 sneakily eats half my CPU with empty screen?

Wed Jan 21 00:53:52 PST 2009

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 01:52 +0100, John Clarke wrote:
> 
> Following an upgrade to Suse 11.1 I find that Xorg is eating my CPU
> alive.  Here's the output from "top":
> 
> 28834 johncc    20   0 1437m 615m 298m R 98.2 15.5 794:20.69 isis
>  3103 root      20   0  748m 398m 7072 S  1.7 10.1   1080:03 Xorg
> 
> I don't know how the massive Xorg usage gets clocked up - I never see
> more than 1-2% used, but nonetheless next morning there it is and my
> batch jobs are taking twice as long to run.

The above indicates this is due to the 'isis' process, not X?

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