[Gllug] Diagnosing runaway Xorg

[Caroline Ford]

There are/were some Ubuntu bugs which were something like xorg is  
eating 100% of my CPU..

I think they are all fixed now. One of the debugging apps, think  
strace, can look at polling I think.

Caroline

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On 19 Jan 2009, at 22:59, Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:

> On 18 Jan 2009, Tethys spake thusly:
>
>> Dylan writes:
>>
>>> So, how can I go about getting more information?
>>
>> Once again, SystemTap is probably the right approach here. It won't  
>> let
>> you see X protocol interactions (at least, not easily), but it should
>> give you some idea of what's going on.
>
> SystemTap is useful if you have problems in kernel space, but its  
> ability
> to probe problems in user space is currently extremely rudimentary.  
> It's
> not dtrace yet, alas :(
>
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