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jerryluc

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From: Norway

Registered: 2008-05-20

Posts: 95

X and cpu usage

In the last couple of days X's cpu usage as raised quite a bit(up to 30% of 2ghz dual core). I've gone through my pacman updates and haven't found anything that should effect X. xorg.conf is unchanged so i don't think it's a configuration error. However I have changed from catalyst to xf86-video-ati driver, but the cpu usage didn't start raising after a week or so. I checked Xorg.log and is says :

(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)

I think this is because my battery stopped working(dell's sending me a new one )

and another strange thing is what dmesg prints out:

X:6731 conflicting memory types d0000000-d8000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus
reserve_memtype failed 0xd0000000-0xd8000000, track write-combining, req write-combining
X:6731 conflicting memory types d0000000-d8000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus
reserve_memtype failed 0xd0000000-0xd8000000, track write-combining, req write-combining
X:6750 freeing invalid memtype d0000000-d8000000
X:6731 conflicting memory types d0000000-d8000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus
reserve_memtype failed 0xd0000000-0xd8000000, track write-combining, req write-combining
X:6751 freeing invalid memtype d0000000-d8000000
X:6731 conflicting memory types d0000000-d8000000 write-combining<->uncached-minus
reserve_memtype failed 0xd0000000-0xd8000000, track write-combining, req write-combining
X:6754 freeing invalid memtype d0000000-d8000000
hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.

any suggestions on what could be wrong? It's really i pain to use the computer now because it lags all the time

Proofrific

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 215

Re: X and cpu usage

Is it related to http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18960 or http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88781 or http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94270 ?

Last edited by Proofrific (2010-04-06 04:43:12)