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<font size="+1">I am running centos 4.2 on a P4 3 GIG with 2 GIG ram.<br>
This machine has been fine for months. my laptop is fine.<br>
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X is taking 99 percent of the cpu after some time. All I was doing was
editing code.<br>
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If I killall -9 X it comes back for a while then maxes out again.<br>
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Any ideas on something to tweek??? THanks,<br>
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<br>
jerry<br>
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Tasks: 120 total, 2 running, 118 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie<br>
Cpu(s): 50.2% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 49.8% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.0% si<br>
Mem: 2074188k total, 742456k used, 1331732k free, 39704k buffers<br>
Swap: 19984840k total, 0k used, 19984840k free, 527876k cached<br>
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND<br>
5270 root 25 0 170m 21m 5808 R 99.9 1.0 7:26.25 X<br>
1 root 16 0 2264 556 476 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.44 init<br>
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0<br>
3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0<br>
4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/1<br>
5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1<br>
6 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.10 events/0<br>
7 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 events/1<br>
8 root 6 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper<br>
9 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid<br>
33 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0<br>
34 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1<br>
44 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush<br>
45 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.25 pdflush<br>
35 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd<br>
47 root 13 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0<br>
48 root 9 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1<br>
46 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0<br>
122 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod<br>
192 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0<br>
193 root 7 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1<br>
195 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0<br>
196 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1<br>
214 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.18 kjournald<br>
1144 root 6 -10 1560 460 380 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 udevd<br>
1348 root 18 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00
shpchpd_event<br>
1828 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kauditd<br>
2029 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmirrord<br>
2030 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kmir_mon<br>
2049 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.28 kjournald<br>
2050 root 19 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald<br>
2789 root 16 0 2408 596 508 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 syslogd<br>
2793 root 15 0 3072 472 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 klogd<br>
2804 root 16 0 2584 476 404 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 irqbalance<br>
2815 rpc 16 0 2980 580 484 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 portmap<br>
2835 rpcuser 16 0 2440 756 656 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rpc.statd<br>
2868 root 16 0 5048 1016 844 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 rpc.idmapd<br>
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