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  1. Bug #294972 (xorg-high-cpu)
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 294972

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LinuxKrn (bugs-linuxlogin) wrote : Re: xorg 10-20% cpu usage after intrepid upgrade, general system sluggishness

Yes, that would be a possible solution. I'm not entirely convinced it is only a bug in nVidia's drivers. Searching for these errors also turns up ATI and Intel problems with very similar issues. So the bug may still exist, just nVidia has a workaround in 180.06.

examples:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-September/038706.html
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg/33174