[GLLUG] X using too much CPU

[Matt Graham]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 14:45, after a long battle with technology, 
Andy Lee wrote:
> Within a couple hours of restarting X it's right back up where it
> was. strace on the process shows the following repeating:
> gettimeofday({1121365253, 535932}, NULL) = 0
[snip]
> root     31952 99.9  0.6 23264 13184 ?       R    12:12 139:18
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X

> Any thoughts?

This is exactly what people on Usenet described a while back; X calling 
gettimeofday() over and over and over again.  To fix it, either don't 
run X (why run an X server on a machine that's a server?) or grab the 
vanilla Xorg tarballs and compile them--the vanilla Xorg doesn't have 
this problem AFAIK; just the SuSE-patched version.

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