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borislavl

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 19

Xorg 100% CPU usage after upgrade

Hi Archers

After this morning's pacman -Syu a lot of packages were upgraded - mainly KDE 4.4.2 and ati-dri

[2010-04-01 08:57] upgraded libgl (7.7-1 -> 7.7.1-0.1)
[2010-04-01 08:57] upgraded ati-dri (7.7-1 -> 7.7.1-0.1)

Maybe 30-40 minutes after the upgrade the Xorg process consumed 400-500 MB RAM and 100% of one of my processor core. I restarted and the same thing happen after hour. I logged-out and everything worked fine till 20-30 minutes later when the same thing happened.

I am using xf86-video-ati, KDE 4.4.2.
My hardware is AMD Athlon II X3 435 2900MHz, Gigabyte MA785GMT-UD2H AMD785G, Kingston 2x1 GB DDR3 1333

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Xorg 100% CPU usage after upgrade

Are you using an xorg.conf ? If you do, try deleting it. And make sure you have xorg-input-drivers installed and HAL is running.

borislavl

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 19

Re: Xorg 100% CPU usage after upgrade

No, I am not using xorg.conf, HAL is running, but I can't find xorg-input-drivers. I'll install this package group, restart and tell you the results.

borislavl

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From: Sofia, Bulgaria

Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 19

Re: Xorg 100% CPU usage after upgrade

The same thing happend  - 100% cpu usage of process /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 vt3 -au.....

Also I can't switch to VTs with Ctrl+Alt+F{1,2...}. My /var/log/Xorg.0.log ends with:

Failed to switch consoles (Input/output error)
Failed to switch consoles (Input/output error)
Failed to switch consoles (Input/output error)
Failed to switch consoles (Input/output error)

[bobby@dragon ~]$ egrep "EE|WW" /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Current Operating System: Linux dragon 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Mar 15 20:08:25 UTC 2010 i686
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
(WW) RADEON(0): DRI init changed memory map, adjusting ...
(WW) RADEON(0):   MC_FB_LOCATION  was: 0x00c700c0 is: 0x00c700c0
(WW) RADEON(0):   MC_AGP_LOCATION was: 0x003f0000 is: 0x00030000

smakked

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From: Gold Coast , Australia

Registered: 2008-08-14

Posts: 420

Re: Xorg 100% CPU usage after upgrade

I have the same issue only started yesterday I have nvidia driver installed, and i noticed x was using about 500 meg of ram all of a sudden.

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Emess

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From: Tokyo, Japan

Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 21

Re: Xorg 100% CPU usage after upgrade

Same here, nvidia driver, and X is eating my RAM like there's no tomorrow. Additionally, after having a small amount of windows open, I am seeing "Maximum number of clients reachedgwenview: cannot connect to X server :0" in CLI when attempting to open a GUI app like gwenview, and mplayer blanks out the entire screen until the window is able to be redrawn.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Xorg 100% CPU usage after upgrade

I upgraded two days ago to Xorg-server 1.8 and -if there was a leakage or high CPU usage- it doesn't exist anymore.

[Nvidia latest driver, added -ignoreABI to kdm Xorg init options]

Last edited by flamelab (2010-04-06 08:03:10)

Emess

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From: Tokyo, Japan

Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 21

Re: Xorg 100% CPU usage after upgrade

Be nice if that was at least in Testing by now. I only got the issue after updating nvidia rather than xorg, but the issue seems to be a xorg one, going by both now and when I used to have the same problem about two years ago. I guess it's ABS time.