[TriLUG] X problems (and happy Easter!)

[Michael Ham]

In response to the Kubuntu problem, I am running ubuntu 8.10 under  
gnome, so that shouldn't be a factor.

It just happened again, so I tried what Jon mentioned. Xorg is using  
the most memory (I think) but only 4.4%. The only application running  
was firefox at the time, so I killed it. X still is showing the  
window, and is still unresponsive.

Also, the % wait is at 0.

Any ideas here?

Thanks again,
Michael

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 12, 2009, at 8:01 AM, <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> 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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