X server consuming lots of CPU cycles

[n0dalus]

On 11/26/06, Paul Michael Reilly <pmr at pajato.com> wrote:
> In the past few days I've noticed that the X server process is
> consuming 20-80% of the CPU on a regular basis as opposed to a more
> reasonable once in a blue moon.  I haven't updated in about a week and
> was reluctant to do so until I saw a fix for the libXfont/xfs issues.
> I don't suppose anyone else is seeing unusually high X server usage
> recently or is aware of some change that would explain what I'm

A couple of people have reported a combination of Firefox + Flash
plugin to be causing various problems with high X server load lately.
If you are running Firefox with flash, try disabling flash and see if
the problem continues.

Hope that helps,
n0dalus.