xorg takes 100% CPU

[Jerome Glisse]

On 10/22/06, Rod Butcher <rbutcher at hyenainternet.com> wrote:
> 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

I can't help for closed source driver. Try seeking help
on nvidia site.

best,
Jerome Glisse