Strange 100% CPU usage with Xorg 7 (latest update)

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 07:58 -0200, Julio Biason wrote:
> On 03/02/06, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> >  I just tried it again, seems to work for me now.

I must correct myself, the issue is still there

> I tried to switch to dapper last night and got the same issue. Killing
> update-notifier was the first thing I did, but the CPU still running
> at full scale

If I kill update-notifier, my CPU is at just a few percent when no
application uses it. (Pentium M, 1.5 GHz). 

>  (on breezy, it usually stayed on 50%).

Why? It shouldn't

> Also, I see some flickering when I type anything on any program, so I
> think it is a Cairo/Pango issue

Might be, but is probably very dependent on which graphics adapter you
have. I don#t see it (Ati with proprietary drivers)

> Good thing installing Breezy is easy. :)

I must say that after the usual frequent and heavy breakage a while ago,
it has currently settled down and works very well.
You can simply go to System > Administration > Software Properties and
disable "Automatically check for updates". Then it won't run again