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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #787859
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 787859

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A. Fachat (fachat) wrote :

ok, in my case it seems to have indeed been a specific application. I killed it - CPU usage was back to normal. Memory was not freed though. I am not sure if this application hasn't been updated between 11.10 and 12.04, so I cannot say if a change in xorg or a change in teh application caused it though.
(I was finally so frustrated I started killing apps when I found it...)