[TriLUG] X problems (and happy Easter!)

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

More than likely you are running some application inside of X that is consuming memory. Next time you do top press M to look at the percentage of memory used by each application.

You might also want to kill off various apps and see if X becomes responsive again. 

The only time I've seen X lock up is when my HD was dying and the applications running were waiting *long* times for the reads/writes to be commited. But I could kill off those apps and X would be responsive again.

Good Luck - Jon Carnes

---- Michael Ham <michael at bakedhamgames.net> wrote: 
> Hey guys,
> 
> My machine will, usually after a day or so of uptime, just completely  
> lock up Xorg. It won't let me do or click anything.
> 
> I can still SSH into the box to reboot, but that's about all. If I do  
> a top during this time, it's clear that X is taking up basically 100%  
> of the CPU.
> 
> I wonder if it is hardware related. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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