Hi - X is taking up a larger amount of CPU than normal. It usually sits around 50% (as seen in top), and will sometimes cap out at 100%. When it does so, keyboard repeats are slow (and maybe other things). Once I alt-tab, the utilization goes back to 50% or so and the keyboard repeats are fine. …

nvidiaAddDrawableHandler is a red herring, it’s just the nearest symbol so everything gets reported as an offset from that. The fact that the server is calling ProcCreatePixmap a lot means that some client is sending that request frequently. My guess is Chrome. Does the Chrome task manager (press s…

Xorg nvidia module cpu utilization is high

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Xorg nvidia module cpu utilization is high

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