[GLLUG] X using too much CPU

Andy Lee ALEE at courts.mi.gov
Thu Jul 14 15:08:06 EDT 2005


I've had several people question why I've got X on this server. I thought about this a bit when I set it up and decided the extra administration tools would be nice, also, all of the oracle setup programs are GUI. This is still in development, and these are the sort of issues I need to resolve before I move the production servers to Linux. Honestly, a lot of the problem is that I'm learning how to manage servers as I go. I've used Linux at home and as a developer, but never had to deal with server administration before.

>>> Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> 07/14/05 02:58PM >>>
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.

-- 
  Och Aye. Twa pounds ten, and that's cutting me puir wee throatie.
  Would ye want that haggis supersized?
        -- McDibbler (Suresh Ramasubramanian, ASR Oct. 1, 2003)
There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
_______________________________________________
linux-user mailing list
linux-user at egr.msu.edu 
http://www.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user




More information about the linux-user mailing list