[Xquartz-dev] 2.3.3_rc4 - cpu goes up to 100% - sampling process

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Is it X11.bin that is using the CPU?  The sample provided in the  
previous email shows it waiting almost 99% of the time... is it  
another process that's using up the CPU?  Or am I missing something  
here...

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
        __semwait_signal        7640
        mach_msg_trap        3771
        select$DARWIN_EXTSN        3674
        _sigtramp        49
        WaitForSomething        19
        objc_msgSend        19
        NSPopAutoreleasePool        18
        AnimCurScreenBlockHandler        10
        WakeupHandler        8
        __nanotime        8
        __gettimeofday        6
        objc_collecting_enabled        6
        select$UNIX2003        6
        __bzero        5

On Dec 25, 2008, at 06:36, Gene Selkov wrote:

> Christof,
>
> Does this condition arise randomly, or do you know what to do to
> provoke it? I am still unable to reproduce it, but I swear I saw the
> same thing 3-4 times after I installed rc3. It was before I knew how
> to sample it, so I cannot claim it was the same, but I saw the 100%
> cpu  load by the idle process -- by idle I mean undisturbed by user
> events. It is interesting that it did go down substantially while I
> used it, and returned to 100% as soon as I left it alone.
>
> Also, I suspect that it is caused by something outside X11, because
> whenever this condition arose, restarting the server did not help; it
> went away only after system restart.
>
> --Gene
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