evolution and Xorg bomb after these days xorg-x11-drv-intel updates?

Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 06:22:44 UTC 2012


Hello,
noticing since yesterday that when I start evolution my laptop
temperature rapidly jumps from 40-45 degrees to 70-75 and I'm forced
to stop it.
When starting it, without doing anything I see this "top" output
sorted by %cpu that explains the jump:

Tasks: 166 total,   3 running, 163 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 22.9%us,  5.4%sy,  0.0%ni, 71.1%id,  0.1%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.2%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8080564k total,  1202424k used,  6878140k free,    59200k buffers
Swap: 10485756k total,        0k used, 10485756k free,   651400k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1972 g.cecchi  20   0 1504m  61m  25m S 69.5  0.8   1:05.15 evolution
  915 root      20   0  133m  11m 5168 R 40.9  0.1   0:38.84 Xorg
 1468 g.cecchi  20   0 1404m 103m  28m S  1.0  1.3   0:05.40
gnome-shell

Normally and if I stop evolution, I then get again

top - 08:18:31 up 9 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.25, 0.34, 0.20
Tasks: 171 total,   3 running, 168 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  1.2%us,  0.8%sy,  0.0%ni, 97.7%id,  0.0%wa,  0.3%hi,  0.1%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   8080564k total,  1518868k used,  6561696k free,    62272k buffers
Swap: 10485756k total,        0k used, 10485756k free,   781328k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1800 g.cecchi  20   0  643m  14m 9.8m S  2.7  0.2   0:02.47
gnome-terminal
  915 root      20   0  135m  13m 5584 R  2.3  0.2   0:48.47 Xorg
 2100 g.cecchi  20   0  453m  26m  12m S  2.0  0.3   0:03.23
plugin-containe

Latest updates applied are these ones:
Sep 11 08:47:10 Updated: libdrm-2.4.37-1.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:10 Updated: glusterfs-3.2.7-2.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:10 Updated: glusterfs-fuse-3.2.7-2.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:10 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.20.6-1.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:10 Updated: os-prober-1.55-1.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:11 Updated: yum-3.4.3-29.fc17.noarch
Sep 11 08:47:11 Updated: freeglut-2.8.0-7.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:11 Updated: trousers-0.3.9-1.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:11 Updated: kasumi-2.5-9.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:11 Updated: gdb-7.4.50.20120120-50.fc17.x86_64
Sep 11 08:47:12 Updated: libdrm-2.4.37-1.fc17.i686

So I suspect xorg-x11-drv-intel as my system is an Asus U36SD with
Intel and nVidia (that is disabled during above tests)
But it seems to happen with evolution only... I don't know which kind
of interaction could be in place.
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if
00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1050 (rev
ff) (prog-if ff)

Anyone else experiencing this and/or having a bugzilla id already open
to post to?
Or I'm going to open a new one...

Thanks in advance,
Gianluca


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