Mensaje citado por Peter Farrow <>: On the other hand, try to launch only the X server and wait the period of time it usually takes to climb up to 99% and let's see if it's really the X or any other process masked under X Regards > 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 > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >CentOS mailing list > >CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Nobody is perfect su - nobody