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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 04:49:42PM -0000, Druid wrote:
> Thanks for the response.
> 
> As if by magic it did it again today. 
> I killed off chrome and virtualbox with no response. Killed off the screensaver with again no change. Compiz and X just sat at 100% cpu and zero response to the mouse/keyboard on the screen.
> 
> I don't tend to run much, lots of gnome-terminal's, firefox, opera,
> chrome and virtualbox are pretty much all that's ever running.
> 
> I'm not sure if it is the same issue or not but I found this:
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=162243
> 
> Which at least partly matches both the hardware (multi nvidia GPU,
> multi-monitor), Ubuntu and behaviour but I can't trigger it with the
> script the OP has posted.

Careful; these bugs can look a lot a like considering just symptoms.
I don't see mention of high xorg memory or cpu mentioned there, so it
may be a "regular" gpu lockup.  GPU lockups don't usually involve high
cpu or memory.

> For reference I'm using Nvidia driver version: 260.19.06
> 
> I can/will run anything required to try and tie down the issue further.

You might find http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting useful.