[GLLUG] X using too much CPU

[STeve Andre']

Was the system in fact slow?  One of my problems with proggrams like
top and uptime are there concepts of time and usage.  Anything like a
load average is hard to calculate.  If X was 'running' for many hours I
wonder if top was seeing the total run time and on a mostly idle machine,
report that X was using most of the CPU.

I tend to discount numbers.  If things are slow, you'll see the pain in 
trying to do things.

--STeve Andre'

On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:04, Andy Lee wrote:
> Don't know why I didn't try it before posting, but restarting X fixed it.
> Still don't know why it got up there, but it's running normally now.
>
> >>> "Andy Lee" <ALEE at courts.mi.gov> 07/14/05 11:37AM >>>
>
> We are having a problem with one of our servers. It's SuSE Linux Enterprise
> Server 9, on an HP DL380 3.2 GHz Xeon, 2GB RAM. top reports that the 'X'
> process is constantly using 96%-98% CPU. This is a fairly stripped down
> install, with KDE, Oracle, and not much else. I didn't come up with
> anything Googling, or on Novell's knowledge base.
>
> Anyone seen this before?