On Monday, 8. April 2002 19:56, Robert Tilley wrote: > I can not understand why XFree86 would be using so much of the CPU.
The XFree86 team has joined distributed.net and abuses the X server to get spare CPU cycles. Nah, just kidding :) > 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 If kicker also uses much (and runs for some time already), could this be the reason? Actually kicker has (in 2.2.2 at least) still some critical X-related errors, for example if you open 100 message boxes in a row it freezes completely.... You could try: dcop kicker Panel restart Does this help? If yes, the problem is kicker. If no, it is very likely a problem with the X server itself. Josef -- The MindX Open Source Project: Fighting proprietary games GGZ now! - The GGZ Gaming Zone: http://ggz.sourceforge.net ggz.morat.net | ggz.snafu.de | jzaun.com | mindx.sourceforge.net/europeone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]