I have trouble with 6 of the workstations used by my users, 60 teachers. Occasionally, 
once a day, the machine will hang totally because of Xfree86 taking 99% of the CPU. 
This happens when the users logs out, the screen will go all grey/black, and won't 
respond to any keyboard activity, the solution is to ssh into it from another machine 
and reboot it.

The machines have 800 MHz AMD cpu, and a SIS 305 videocard. I dont know what causes 
this problem, this can happen to any user, for no special reason. I have tried 
different configurations of X, both with and without framebuffer, but with no sucess.

So now I'm looking for a script that will solve my problem in a less than elegant way; 
I'm looking for a script that will run via a cron job every 5 minutes or so, that will 
look for a runaway Xfree86 process taking 99% (or some other triggering limit) of CPU, 
and when that is found, it will reboot the machine automatically. Does anyone know how 
such a script should look like?


Marius
    
   
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