Re: X server consuming lots of CPU cycles

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 11:26 -0500, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> In the past few days I've noticed that the X server process is
> consuming 20-80% of the CPU on a regular basis as opposed to a more
> reasonable once in a blue moon.  I haven't updated in about a week and
> was reluctant to do so until I saw a fix for the libXfont/xfs issues.
> I don't suppose anyone else is seeing unusually high X server usage
> recently or is aware of some change that would explain what I'm
> seeing.  FWIW, I am running a A31p Thinkpad with 1G RAM and a 2+Ghz
> processor.  The logs do not seem to show anything out of the ordinary.

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