tag 275117 + moreinfo
retitle 275117 xserver-xfree86: server loops at 100% CPU calling gettimeofday with lots of xterm activity on nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] rev 161
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On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 07:25:47PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> Package: xserver-xfree86
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8
> Severity: important
>
> Ran a "cp -rv dir1 dir2" inside an xterm, and the server hosed itself.
> No windows would update or refresh at all. The mouse pointer could
> still move, but would not change shape based on what it was passing over.
> Clicks and keypresses had no effect, such as trying to drop to a console.
>
> Logging in remotely and runnng top showed the server active and hogging
> the entire CPU. Attaching an strace gave approximately 18 hojillion lines of
>
> gettimeofday({1097017128, 281449}, NULL) = 0
[...]
> As an aside, some of this gathered info is wrong or misleading: the file
> is apparently renamed XF86Config, not -4, and this monitor is definitely
> not 17".
Yours is named XF86Config.
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
That's not the Debian default for XFree86 4.x; see XF86Config(7). It's not
a problem except for the fact that reportbug doesn't find it.
Don't worry about the 17" thing. You used a different method to configure
your monitor, so that question was left as the default. You haven't seen
it, hence no "*" next to it.
Most importantly:
Can you reproduce this problem with the "nv" driver?
Also:
Please review the logs of the following bug report and let us know if you
think it sounds like your problem.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=243314
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