[CentOS] X windows is taking 99 percent of cpu
Jujo
jujo at jujo.info
Wed Nov 30 16:46:39 UTC 2005
Mensaje citado por Peter Farrow <>:
On the other hand, try to launch only the X server and wait the period of time
it usually takes to climb up to 99% and let's see if it's really the X or any
other process masked under X
Regards
> Does it have a screensaver enabled?
>
> Not sure if that would come under the X process name though in top...
>
> You could always try and strace X to see what its doing..
>
> Just a thought...
>
> P.
>
>
>
> Jerry Geis wrote:
>
> > I am running centos 4.2 on a P4 3 GIG with 2 GIG ram.
> > This machine has been fine for months. my laptop is fine.
> >
> > X is taking 99 percent of the cpu after some time. All I was doing was
> > editing code.
> >
> > If I killall -9 X it comes back for a while then maxes out again.
> >
> > Any ideas on something to tweek??? THanks,
> >
> >
> > jerry
> > ------------
> >
> > Tasks: 120 total, 2 running, 118 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 50.2% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 49.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
> > 0.0% si
> > Mem: 2074188k total, 742456k used, 1331732k free, 39704k buffers
> > Swap: 19984840k total, 0k used, 19984840k free, 527876k cached
> >
> > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> > 5270 root 25 0 170m 21m 5808 R 99.9 1.0 7:26.25 X
> > 1 root 16 0 2264 556 476 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.44 init
> > 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
> > 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
> > 4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/1
> > 5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1
> > 6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 events/0
> > 7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 events/1
> > 8 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
> > 9 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
> > 33 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
> > 34 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1
> > 44 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
> > 45 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.25 pdflush
> > 35 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
> > 47 root 13 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
> > 48 root 9 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
> > 46 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
> > 122 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
> > 192 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0
> > 193 root 7 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1
> > 195 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
> > 196 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
> > 214 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 kjournald
> > 1144 root 6 -10 1560 460 380 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 udevd
> > 1348 root 18 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 shpchpd_event
> > 1828 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kauditd
> > 2029 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmirrord
> > 2030 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmir_mon
> > 2049 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.28 kjournald
> > 2050 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
> > 2789 root 16 0 2408 596 508 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 syslogd
> > 2793 root 15 0 3072 472 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd
> > 2804 root 16 0 2584 476 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 irqbalance
> > 2815 rpc 16 0 2980 580 484 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 portmap
> > 2835 rpcuser 16 0 2440 756 656 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rpc.statd
> > 2868 root 16 0 5048 1016 844 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 rpc.idmapd
> >
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