[GLLUG] X using too much CPU

[Andy Lee]

No, the system wasn't slow at all. The Oracle logs were reporting high CPU utilization warnings, but still seemed to respond normally. That could be what was happening. Are there better tools for monitoring system status?

>>> "STeve Andre'" <andres at msu.edu> 07/14/05 12:22PM >>>
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?
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