[GLLUG] X using too much CPU

[STeve Andre']

There aren't, that I know of.  So the logs were reporting a number, which
is what got your interest.  I've been in that situation before, which is why
I'm so jaded now about them.

I think a better approach would be--though I don't know anything about
Oracle--to monitor the amount of time a typical transation takes to do.
After all, if the purpose of the machine is databasing, then what better
metric than to measure the time a transaction takes?  I realize that your
system might not have a typical transaction, so that might not work for
you.  But in the rare cases where I couldn't convince people to not do
this, I've tried to figure out what an atomic operation looked like on the
system, and used that a as timing measure.

If you come up with some ingenious system, do let us all know. ;-)

--STeve Andre'

On Thursday 14 July 2005 12:33, Andy Lee wrote:
> 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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