[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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