I can not understand why XFree86 would be using so much of the CPU.
Following are the first five lines from top.
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
1682 root 20 -10 106M 52M 9516 R < 73.4 28.3 784:50 XFree86
1744 tilleyrw 13 0 10480 9856 7924 R 22.3 5.1 300:41 kdeinit
6494 tilleyrw 9 0 4540 4540 3152 S 0.7 2.3 0:01 gkrellm
6498 root 12 0 952 952 748 R 0.7 0.4 0:00 top
1 root 8 0 472 432 412 S 0.0 0.2 0:04 init
Here is the output of a process listing:
debian:/home/tilleyrw# ps aux
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.2 1272 432 ? S Apr07 0:04 ini
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr07 0:00 [keventd]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Apr07 0:00
[ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr07 0:02 [kswapd]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr07 0:00 [bdflush]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr07 0:00 [kupdated]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr07 0:00 [khubd]
root 99 0.0 0.2 1444 484 ? S Apr07 0:00 pump -i eth0
root 101 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Apr07 0:00 [eth0]
daemon 105 0.0 0.2 1384 384 ? S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/portmap
root 560 0.0 0.3 2040 692 ? S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/syslogd
root 563 0.0 0.2 1348 388 ? S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/klogd
root 592 0.0 0.2 1444 520 ? S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/rpc.statd
root 599 0.0 0.2 1992 564 ? S Apr07 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
root 606 0.0 0.3 2048 580 ? S Apr07 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
postgres 644 0.0 0.4 8552 820 ? S Apr07 0:00
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster
postgres 646 0.0 0.4 9544 808 ? S Apr07 0:00 postgres:
stats buffer process
postgres 648 0.0 0.4 8584 812 ? S Apr07 0:00 postgres:
stats collector process
root 662 0.0 1.2 5184 2404 ? S Apr07 0:13
/usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon
nobody 665 0.0 0.3 17756 592 ? S Apr07 0:00
/usr/bin/X11/xfs-xtt -daemon -user nobody -port 711daemon 668 0.0 0.2
1384 516 ? S Apr07 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
root 671 0.0 0.3 1652 608 ? S Apr07 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 678 0.0 0.2 2516 568 ? S Apr07 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm
root 685 0.0 0.2 1256 400 tty2 S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/getty
38400 tty2
root 686 0.0 0.2 1256 400 tty3 S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/getty
38400 tty3
root 687 0.0 0.2 1256 400 tty4 S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/getty
38400 tty4
root 688 0.0 0.2 1256 400 tty5 S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/getty
38400 tty5
root 689 0.0 0.2 1256 400 tty6 S Apr07 0:00 /sbin/getty
38400 tty6
tilleyrw 1671 0.0 0.4 2200 880 tty1 S Apr07 0:00 -bash
tilleyrw 1672 0.0 0.4 2032 776 tty1 S Apr07 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/X11/startx
tilleyrw 1681 0.0 0.2 2184 536 tty1 S Apr07 0:00 xinit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11Rroot 1682 66.5 28.2 113160
54032 ? S< Apr07 786:45 /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
tilleyrw 1685 0.0 0.4 2032 768 tty1 S Apr07 0:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/x-session-manager
tilleyrw 1710 0.0 0.2 2476 480 ? S Apr07 0:00
/usr/bin/ssh-agent x-session-manager
tilleyrw 1717 0.0 1.9 15560 3656 ? S Apr07 0:01 kdeinit:
Running...
tilleyrw 1720 0.0 1.7 15244 3404 ? S Apr07 0:03 kdeinit:
dcopserver --nosid
tilleyrw 1723 0.0 2.3 16948 4456 ? S Apr07 0:01 kdeinit:
klauncher
tilleyrw 1726 0.0 3.5 18436 6740 ? S Apr07 0:03 kdeinit: kded
tilleyrw 1734 0.0 0.5 5360 1080 ? S Apr07 0:00 /usr/bin/artsd
-F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -tilleyrw 1738 0.0 2.6 18260 5144 ?
S Apr07 0:00 kdeinit: knotify
tilleyrw 1739 0.0 2.1 10884 4188 tty1 S Apr07 0:00 ksmserver
--restore
tilleyrw 1740 0.0 3.3 16664 6336 ? S Apr07 0:04 kdeinit: kwin
-session 117f000001000101784866800000tilleyrw 1742 0.0 3.9 17484 7508 ?
S Apr07 0:04 kdeinit: kdesktop
tilleyrw 1744 25.4 5.1 20648 9856 ? R Apr07 301:17 kdeinit: kicker
tilleyrw 1780 0.0 3.1 16160 5972 ? S Apr07 0:00 kdeinit:
kcookiejar
tilleyrw 1787 0.0 3.1 16264 6108 ? S Apr07 0:31 kdeinit:
klipper -icon klipper -miniicon klipper
tilleyrw 1789 0.0 2.6 16176 5104 ? S Apr07 0:00 kdeinit:
kwrited
tilleyrw 1790 0.0 3.8 16848 7376 ? R Apr07 0:02 kdeinit:
konsole -session 117f000001000101805823100tilleyrw 1802 0.0 1.3 10700 2536
? S Apr07 0:00 kdesud
tilleyrw 1809 0.0 2.8 15860 5492 ? S Apr07 0:00 alarmd
tilleyrw 1815 0.0 4.0 22724 7804 ? S Apr07 0:01 knode -session
117f00000100010182071340000000760001tilleyrw 1817 0.0 0.1 1244 292 pts/0
S Apr07 0:00 /bin/cat
tilleyrw 1818 0.0 0.4 2196 892 pts/1 S Apr07 0:00 /bin/bash
root 1819 0.0 0.5 2220 1100 pts/2 S Apr07 0:00 bash
tilleyrw 1822 0.0 4.0 22724 7804 ? S Apr07 0:00 knode -session
117f00000100010182071340000000760001tilleyrw 1823 0.0 4.0 22724 7804 ?
S Apr07 0:00 knode -session
117f00000100010182071340000000760001tilleyrw 1824 0.0 4.0 22724 7804 ?
S Apr07 0:00 knode -session
117f00000100010182071340000000760001tilleyrw 3658 0.0 3.5 16256 6712 ?
S Apr07 0:00 kdeinit: kio_uiserver
tilleyrw 5649 0.2 14.3 36768 27464 ? S 09:11 0:35 kmail -caption
KMail -icon kmail -miniicon kmail
tilleyrw 6205 0.2 5.4 20108 10444 ? S 12:46 0:01 kinkatta
tilleyrw 6494 0.5 2.3 7060 4540 ? S 12:49 0:01 gkrellm
root 6503 0.0 0.8 3520 1532 pts/2 R 12:54 0:00 ps aux
I know this is a lot of information, but can anyone on this list help me to
identify what is sucking up so much CPU power?
Thanks,
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Thank you for any comments or information!
Robert Tilley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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