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[Dave Butcher <davidgbutcher@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill,
well, wouldn't you know but my machine locked again today -- 3 days uptime.
So I'm still nowhere.
How did you get your uptime up to 5 days?
Thanks,
Dave


2009/11/17 Bill Harris <bill_harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> Dave Butcher <davidgbutcher@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
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> > you still with us?
>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for the note.  Yes, I am.  I still have problems, but current
> uptime is almost 5 days.  I'm hoping to get the time to try Karmic in
> the next week or two.
>
> > I found this article answered my issues (Bug #466937) completely:
> > http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/11/20/tips-and-tricks-why-does-xorgs-
> > cpu-usage-shoot-up-when-using-nvidias-driver/
> >
> > Just add the option
> >    Option        "UseEvents" "true"
> > to the "Device" section of your xorg.conf
>
> Cool!  That sounds easy.  I have two displays, so I added it to each.  I
> presume I need to restart X; I'll do that when I don't have so many
> windows open (or when Jaunty "helps" me in that regard :-) ).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bill
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> Xorg grabs all of RAM; UI appears frozen
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434416
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