On my home workstation, I have an intermittent problem with X running away. The machine is a 1GHz Athlon-C, 768MB RAM, GeForce4MX/64 MB. It has been occurring for the past several months. Basically, what happens (normally, after the screen blanks) is that the XFree86 process starts eating 97-100% of the CPU. I'm running XFree86-4.2.1.
Initially, I thought it was due to either Gnome or GTK-2 apps, but I'm not so sure now. I was running Evolution, and noticed that sometimes when I clicked "Get Messages" X would die. So I dropped Evo in favor of Sylpheed, but I still use Galeon. However, the problem has happened when Galeon is not running as well. I'm using the nVidia-glx and nVidia-kernel drivers, currently 4496, though the problem has persisted across two or more driver revs, so I don't think the nVidia drivers are the problem. Has anyone seen behavior like this before? -- --Brad ======================================================================== Bradley M. Alexander | gTLD SysAdmin, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org Debian/GNU Linux Developer | storm [at] debian.org ======================================================================== Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 ======================================================================== Bobby, if you give me one more iota of grief, I'm going to peck open your brain case and let the air out. --Pesto The Goodfeathers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]