On 05/04/2010 07:23 PM, DB wrote: > Hi All! > > Anyone able to give me an idea where to look...... > > Sometimes when I start my desktop, System Monitor tells me that "X" is > running at max CPU %-age. Other times, "X" is 4th or 5th in the list (I > selected the CPU column to put the highest users on top), using 1 or 2 %. > > So, my question to you all: What is "X" doing& how can I stop it doing > whatever& keep my CPU chip cool????? BTW, I have no idea what X is!!! > I've tried killing it& that usually kills my desktop; just now killing > it caused the system to restart. > > My system: uname -ar > Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 > 06:51:26 UTC 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux > > running F11& kde installed from the F11-KDE-Livecd. > > As ever, Thanks for any help! > > Dave > X is the graphical server allowing you to have a GUI; we do not know what exactly you are doing when the X server starts spiking CPU usage , so unless more info is provided, we can't do much. Fedora 11 is nearing end-of-life , upgrade ASAP. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
