Xorg slow down rquires a kill

[Matt Graham]

After a long battle with technology, Kevin Faulkner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:10:46AM +0000, Michael Havens wrote:
>> I've noticed that after about 2-3 weeks of not shutting off my computer
>> that things grind to a halt and that I need to kill Xorg.  Is there
>> anything I can do or is it just my old k6 processor and I'll have to live
>> with it?
> This is a pretty broad question. How much swap are you using? Are you maxed
> out on memory? Is it really a K6? show what "free" has to say. Prior to
> restarting X use top to find out what the whole picutre is because maybe its
> something else (perhaps kde? or a gnome app gone wild?).

Also, which version of which distro are you using, and which version of X?  A 
number of SuSE versions shipped with buggy X that could fall into a loop of 
calling gettimeofday() over and over and over again.  A high-end K6-3 could 
easily be usable for light tasks if it had enough memory.  A PIII-900 could 
run KDE 3.3 with only 384M, after all.  The thing that's actually more likely 
than KDE or GNOME eating all the memory is a Java or Flash app invoked from 
Firefox using up tons of memory.  KDE's a pig, but it uses ~500M and stays 
there.  Bad Java and bad Flash will eat all the RAM you have and then some.

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