This looks like a similar case to what's beeing discussed in 6539657 and gnome: several gnome processes have started to consume 100% cpu
since I upgraded my 4-CPU U40 from osol build 111b to 116 last week, whenever I lock the screen (and all I use is the "blank" screen, no fancy stuff), I notice that unlocking takes much too long: first, for my first keystroke to be "echoed" as blob, it takes several seconds, and then another few seconds till the screen is actually unlocked. If I look at prstat (from a different machine), I can see that during that time, Xorg is consuming nearly all of one complete CPU (core). I tried to do some periodic ustack() recording but got only addresses and haven't dug into this any further. does this ring any bell(s)? I also noticed that sometimes, the dialog asking for the unlock password flickers rapidly, as if it were out of sync with the screen (I think I've seen this only on the "second" one of my two screens). I'm using the legacy nvidia driver, 173.14.18. Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
