Bug#441699: freezes system

Jordà Polo jorda at ettin.org
Fri Sep 14 18:11:15 UTC 2007


On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:23:10PM +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> In a way you might be right, most 3D games seem to boost CPU consumption to 
> 100% even if they're idling. However neverball is the worst I've seen so 
> far - were the system even a little less responsive, I would have had to 
> powercycle the PC, nevermind any unsaved work.
>
> So the question for me would be: is neverball polling insanely? Or is it 
> below neverball? Or is it both? If it's below neverball and neverball just 
> somehow manages to trigger the insanity in a specially pathologic way, then 
> who is consuming 100% CPU? Is it X? The nv driver? The opengl SW driver?
> *t

You reported the bug against neverputt, but you are talking about neverball
now. Just to make it clear: do you have this problem with neverball,
neverputt or both? (Yeah, the names are a bit confusing...)

Thanks.





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