Bug#402029: xorg using 100% cpu on certain pictures/glyphs
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 17:15 +0100, Ph. Marek wrote:
>
> When viewing the URL http://www.emchome.net/article.php/3095 in konqueror
> (3.5.5a.dfsg.1-2) xorg uses 100% cpu.
>
> When I have a root shell hanging around renicing helps a bit.
> Logging off and on again stops the loop; but looking at the site sends it in
> the same loop again.
Can you profile where the CPU time is spent with sysprof or oprofile?
Also, please provide full X config and log files.
> It seems that xorg is *not* restarted on logoff, as the same nice setting
> still helps.
That's correct, the X server just resets and starts a new generation by
default. This can be changed in the display manager configuration.
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