Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1761 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 23 August 2010 10:56:56 C wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:27, Bob Williams wrote:
> > I have a process running as root which is taking 25 - 30% of my processor
> > activity. Htop tells me it's
> >
> > /usr/bin/Xorg -br :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp - \
> > auth/var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-j1o7xa
> >
> > It's obviously something to do with the graphic display, but it would
> > seem to me to be using too much of the main CPU.
> >
> > I have a quad core, 2.8GHz processor with 8Gb Ram, and no particularly
> > graphics intensive software running (Kontact, Firefox, Amarok, gkrellm,
> > Krusader). The graphics card is nVidia GeForce 9600GT.
> >
> > I'm running openSUSE 11.3 and KDE 4.5.
>
> Sounds familiar...
>
> > Registered Linux User #463880           FSFE Member #1300
> > GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E
> > openSUSE 11.3, Kernel 2.6.34.12-desktop, KDE 4.5.0
> > Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT
>
> If your signature line is correct, and you're running kernel 2.6.34,
> you could try upgrading to 2.6.35 from Kernel:Head.  This has been
> discussed a fair bit here on the mailing list with various solutions.
> The one that worked for me with all nVidia/openSUSE11.3 combinations
> was a kernel upgrade (and of course re-installing the nVidia binary
> driver)
>
> C.
Yup:

:~> uname -r
2.6.34-12-desktop

I'll try a kernel upgrade.

Thanks.

Bob
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Registered Linux User #463880           FSFE Member #1300
GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E
openSUSE 11.3, Kernel 2.6.34.12-desktop, KDE 4.5.0
Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 8GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9600GT
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