xorg takes 100% CPU

[Rod Butcher]

Jerome Glisse wrote:
> 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.
Video is onboard nVIDIA GeForce 6100 using nVIDIA binary driver. Video 
continues to work OK, X just uses 100% cpu.

Should I be chasing this on the nVIDIA forum ?
I don't get any errors/warnings in xorg.log, just the normal startup 
messages :-
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) Loading extension NV-GLX
(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized
(II) NVIDIA(0): Using the NVIDIA 2D acceleration architecture
(==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
(**) Option "dpms"
(**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
(II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
(==) RandR enabled
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFIXES
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(II) Initializing built-in extension RANDR
(II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
(II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
(II) Initializing built-in extension XEVIE
(II) Initializing extension GLX
... etc
thanks for reading this far
Rod
> 
> best,
> Jerome Glisse
> 


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