Thanks for the info. I guess we will have to wait until Nvidia post an
updated driver and see what happens then.

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Phil <[email protected]> wrote:

> It seems that nvidia noticed there was a bug in their driver.  The
> website defaults back to 185.18.36 now, so they must have pulled 190.42
> until they get the bug fixed.
>
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> Karmic Frequently Hangs with 100% CPU
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/473722
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> Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> During regular usage (no particular program, website, HDD access, etc.),
> the desktop hangs for 5-30 seconds.  It'll happen while opening programs,
> closing programs, navigating the web, navigating local and network drives...
> pretty much any time.  It'll happen several times within a 5 minute period,
> and other times I can go 30+ minutes without it happening.  Sometimes the
> mouse freezes as well, and sometimes it'll move but it just won't register
> any clicks.  When function returns, my System Monitor applet in gnome-panel
> shows maxed CPU usage during the hang.  If I try to monitor processes during
> this time with System Monitor or "top", it never shows me what application
> is hogging all of the CPU because the window won't update process CPU usage
> in realtime.  I only see the history of overall CPU usage, but not which
> process was using it.
>
> I found a similar bug at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/usplash/+bug/439138 but
> I'm not getting maxed Xorg usage specifically and it's not solved my logging
> in/out.  I'm not sure if this is the same thing or not.  If it is, I
> apologize for the duplicate.  I have noticed that this appeared only
> recently.  I was using Karmic Beta since 1-2 weeks before the RC came out,
> and I never experienced this until just a few days ago.  I'm getting similar
> behavior on my MythTV server/frontend, so I don't think it has anything to
> do with my specific hardware.  My initial conspiracy theory about a Windows
> 7 dual boot (I installed Karmic 2nd) causing trouble also doesn't work,
> seeing as my server has Ubuntu only.
>
> I apologize for the lack of information, but because I can't track it down
> to a particular process, I'm not sure what log files I should post.  If
> there's something I can do to track which process it's getting hung up on,
> please let me know.  In the meantime, my system specs are:
>
> Desktop:
> Ubuntu 9.10 - 64-bit
> MSI P6N SLI Platinum
> Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.4 GHz
> 6 GB RAM, 2 GB Swap
> GeForce GTS 250 w/ nvidia driver 190.42
>
> Server:
> Ubuntu 9.10 - 64-bit
> Asus P5Q SE Plus
> Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16 GHz
> 4 GB RAM, 2 GB swap
> GeForce 8400GS w/ nvidia driver 190.42
>

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