X windows is taking 99 percent of cpu

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Does it have a screensaver enabled?

Not sure if that would come under the X process name though in top...

You could always try and strace X to see what its doing..

Just a thought...

P.



Jerry Geis wrote:

> I am running centos 4.2 on a P4 3 GIG with 2 GIG ram.
> This machine has been fine for months. my laptop is fine.
>
> X is taking 99 percent of the cpu after some time. All I was doing was 
> editing code.
>
> If I killall -9 X it comes back for a while then maxes out again.
>
> Any ideas on something to tweek??? THanks,
>
>
> jerry
> ------------
>
> Tasks: 120 total,   2 running, 118 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 50.2% us,  0.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 49.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  
> 0.0% si
> Mem:   2074188k total,   742456k used,  1331732k free,    39704k buffers
> Swap: 19984840k total,        0k used, 19984840k free,   527876k cached
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  5270 root      25   0  170m  21m 5808 R 99.9  1.0   7:26.25 X
>     1 root      16   0  2264  556  476 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.44 init
>     2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
>     3 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
>     4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 migration/1
>     5 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/1
>     6 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.10 events/0
>     7 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.06 events/1
>     8 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
>     9 root      15 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
>    33 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0
>    34 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/1
>    44 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
>    45 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.25 pdflush
>    35 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd
>    47 root      13 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
>    48 root       9 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/1
>    46 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
>   122 root      25   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
>   192 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0
>   193 root       7 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/1
>   195 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
>   196 root      19   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
>   214 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.18 kjournald
>  1144 root       6 -10  1560  460  380 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.02 udevd
>  1348 root      18   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 shpchpd_event
>  1828 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kauditd
>  2029 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kmirrord
>  2030 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kmir_mon
>  2049 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.28 kjournald
>  2050 root      19   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kjournald
>  2789 root      16   0  2408  596  508 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.06 syslogd
>  2793 root      15   0  3072  472  404 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 klogd
>  2804 root      16   0  2584  476  404 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 irqbalance
>  2815 rpc       16   0  2980  580  484 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 portmap
>  2835 rpcuser   16   0  2440  756  656 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rpc.statd
>  2868 root      16   0  5048 1016  844 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 rpc.idmapd
>
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