[GLLUG] X using too much CPU

[Edward Glowacki]

You can probably get away with just installing the X client libraries
and not have an X server running on there at all.  If you need to run
the Oracle GUI utilities, or anything else, you can display them
remotely (preferably tunneled through SSH) to any machine with an X
server.  That should free up a lot of memory, and in this case CPU. =)

-ED  

On 7/14/05, Andy Lee <ALEE at courts.mi.gov> wrote:
> 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.
> 
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