On 09/01/06, Paul Dwerryhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 02:21:08PM +0100, Kevin Glynn wrote: > > I am running (up to date) Debian unstable on my laptop, it has a > > Radeon IGP 340M graphics chip. For the last month or so I am seeing > > the Xorg process gradually gobble up more and more CPU, up to 30/40% > > and in some cases 99%. > > Yes, I see this too, and have seen it ever since unstable switched from > xfree86 to Xorg. > > It happens periodically - the load average on my machine shoots up, > stays high for ten or so minutes, and then gradually drops off again. > > This occurs on every machine I've got that is running Xorg. Two of them > have ATI cards, but the third has an nVidia card. > > > But the big CPU problems are seen when I run mozilla-firefox, since > > usually when I kill firefox Xorg recovers. > > I run galeon (rather than firefox), but it never seems to be > particularly high in top's output when the problem happens. >
firefox CPU utilisation doesn't get high for me either, but I noticed that it was usually near the top of my other processes when I had the problem. Killing firefox reduces Xorg back to normal, so it seems to be tickling something. It also seems to get worse when I browse certain sites, such as google reader. cheers k
