X (xorg 7.3) consumes all the CPU
Giorgos Keramidas
keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Wed Oct 10 05:37:09 PDT 2007
On 2007-10-09 22:01, Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
> Is there a way to start a process so that memory and CPU usage can be
> tracked closely enough to determine what the cause of 100% CPU use
> would be? I've got a box, recently installed 6.2 RELEASE with xorg
> 7.3 installed, and when X is started, CPU goes to 100% and stays
> there.
>
> Here's the bad machine
> 1510 pauls 1 0 0 277M 7076K rdnrel 0 13:41 100.05% Xorg
>
> Here's my desktop
> 868 root 1 96 0 202M 134M select 119:09 0.00% Xorg
>
> As you can see, memory and CPU use is sky high on the "bad" box.
> Rather than blow it away and reinstall, I'd like to try to figure out
> what's wrong and fix it. What utilities could I use to do that?
Are you running `powerd' in `adaptive' mode on the 100%-CPU system?
I've seen this happening on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT a few times, when
powerd(8) lowered the CPU frequency to a minimum and X.org started
consuming 100% CPU.
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