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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