Re: High /usr/bin/X CPU Usage

2011-09-07 Thread Robert Massaioli
Thankyou for that advice and I will be sure to do that; recording all of the system calls that it makes would be useful I imagine. I am still trying to solve this problem as best as I can though. The latest thing that I have tried is just upgrading my NVIDIA drivers to the absolute latest beta ver

Re: High /usr/bin/X CPU Usage

2011-09-07 Thread Pat Kane
It would be interesting to see strace output of the Xorg process when it is in that state.That is a bit tricky to do however, you need to ssh into the box to run strace, otherwise you might hit a deadlock, see: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2008-August/038048.html Run the strace with

Re: High /usr/bin/X CPU Usage

2011-09-07 Thread Marty Jack
On 09/07/2011 02:49 AM, Robert Massaioli wrote: > Hi Tormod and Chris, > > Thankyou for the great responses so far! But unfortunately still no luck. Let > me explain the results of what happened after I tried what was suggested. > > I tried looking into the CPU and GPU issues that people were

Re: High /usr/bin/X CPU Usage

2011-09-07 Thread Robert Massaioli
Hi Tormod and Chris, Thankyou for the great responses so far! But unfortunately still no luck. Let me explain the results of what happened after I tried what was suggested. I tried looking into the CPU and GPU issues that people were mentioning but, after having the computer running for 8 hours s