Re: xorg overloaded

2006-12-30 Thread pol
Kent West wrote: If it's really X, then you shouldn't need to shut off your laptop; simply restarting the X server should solve the problem. If it doesn't, the problem is not X, but something else. Ok, I will try to restart X, next time. Are you suspecting 'top' is not a reliable program?

Re: xorg overloaded

2006-12-30 Thread Kent West
pol wrote: Kent West wrote: If it's really X, then you shouldn't need to shut off your laptop; simply restarting the X server should solve the problem. If it doesn't, the problem is not X, but something else. Ok, I will try to restart X, next time. Are you suspecting 'top' is

Re: xorg overloaded

2006-12-29 Thread Kent West
pol wrote: Hi all, After many hours sitting working, the X server of my laptop often starts sucking all the cpu power (80-99%). , with no apparen reason (i cannot get hints from the 'ps axf' output). Overloading lasts forever, until i am forced to turn my laptop off. Any ideas to solve