A good guide already exists here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingXorg
My testing was done simply with normal (non-debug and without symbols)
with strace and gdb. It might be more useful to get full debug
information out of X by following the guide above.
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xorg 10-20% cpu usage after
Yes, that would be a possible solution. I'm not entirely convinced it
is only a bug in nVidia's drivers. Searching for these errors also
turns up ATI and Intel problems with very similar issues. So the bug
may still exist, just nVidia has a workaround in 180.06.
examples:
Mats,
Yes it has been working great since the update. But again, they are
beta drivers and had to be installed manually.
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xorg 10-20% cpu usage after intrepid upgrade, general system sluggishness
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294972
You received this bug notification because you are a
I'd also like to add this happens with me as well. I have a high end
machine (3.4Ghz CPU, dual SLI 8800 GTX, RAID0 SSD, 4GB RAM) and firefox
will cause Xorg to 100% CPU and everything freezes for sometimes as long
as 5+ seconds when opening or closing new tabs. Even loading pages
feels sluggish
Re: Jonathan,
I can confirm that website locks my system up for several seconds. Even
if I hit back or try to change tabs it locks up. Everything stops seems
to hang, gnome-system-monitor, top, terminals, etc. BUT, Amarok
continues to play sound from my music. So it appears to be video/xorg
Update:
I logged into my system using another laptop and ran straces on xorg.
I saw tons of loops of these calls during the freezes:
10:19:35.422974 writev(54,
[{\1\0\333\r\6\0\0\0\312\7\3\0\360\0\32\0\34\10\3\0h\10\35..., 56}], 1) = 56
10:19:35.424835 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {44940,
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: system-config-printer-gnome
Ubuntu 8.04.1
system-config-printer-gnome 0.7.81+svn1976-0ubuntu9
The gnome printer configuration is not LDAP/pam aware and only checks
local files for group/passwords.
I am using LDAP for authentication. My user is in the
I can confirm this problem as well.
USB scanner
device `sm3840:libusb:001:004' is a Microtek ScanMaker 4800 flatbed scanner
I was using an HP Laserjet 1200 printer via parallel port. sane-find-
scanner worked but everything else would hang.
Turning off the printer or changing it to use USB is
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 160264 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160264
There is a somewhat easy fix for this, enter in a terminal sudo killall
compiz, then enter your password.I have a keyboard shortcut for
open terminal, so I just press it and kill compiz and the screen is
