[Gllug] Diagnosing runaway Xorg

[John Hearns]

2009/1/17 Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk>

> Hi all,
>
> Fairly regularly, I find Xorg running up to 90% and accelerating the CPU to
> full revs in the process. There are no entries in logs which are in any way
> relevant (system logs or Xlogs). Also, there is no HD activity beyond
> normal


Maybe try running top, identify the top CPU hogging process then:

strace <process  id>

Might make sense to switch to the first system console to do that, ie
CTRL-Alt-F1
so you can leave the X process running without interacting with it.
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