xorg takes 100% CPU

[Jerome Glisse]

On 10/15/06, Rod Butcher <rbutcher at hyenainternet.com> wrote:
> Greetings from sunny Sydney. I have x.org 6.9 running as part of the
> standard Mandriva 2006 x86-64 release on a dual processor AMD Athlon,
> running 24x7.
> After a few days of operation x starts taking 100% of one cpu and has to
> be restarted to get it down to its usual 1%.
> Any pointers as to how I debug this ?
> thanks
> Rod
>

You don't provide engout information, please give your xorg log.
Anyway what you are experiencing is likely a video card hang.

best,
Jerome Glisse