X11 using up resources?

[A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru]

It seems that the X configuration is slightly different from the one
needed for your hardware - for example, you are using wrong video driver
or wrong configuration parameters (if any) for the driver. What are the
video driver and video hardware you are using?
Also, most probably, you do not need to reboot the machine, usually it
should be enough to kill and restart only the X itself.

Alexey Fadyushin.
Brainbench MVP for Linux.
http://www.brainbench.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Golhar
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:31 PM
> To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
> Subject: X11 using up resources?
> 
> I'm running RH WS v3, its up to date with patches.  Occassionally,
I'll
> have a few users logged in to it, some running VNC, maybe someone
logged
> in from the console.
> 
> Every once in a while I'll notice the load average on the machine go
up
> to 8.xx to 12.xx.  When I run top to see what is running, I usually
see
> X taking up 99% of the CPU (see below).
> 
> I can't figure out why.  The only thing I can think of is something
with
> someone's vnc session is causing this, but don't know what.  I've
> resorted to rebooting the machine to fix it, but I've had to reboot
the
> machine several times now.  Has anyone seen this before or know where
to
> start looking for the cause?
> 
> ----
>  10:24:42  up 130 days, 21:37,  3 users,  load average: 6.04, 7.57,
8.30
> 68 processes: 63 sleeping, 5 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  cpu    user    nice  system    irq  softirq  iowait
idle
>            total    0.0%    0.0%  100.0%   0.0%     0.0%    0.0%
0.0%
> Mem:  1018892k av,  931928k used,   86964k free,       0k shrd,
129936k
> buff
>                     580664k actv,  120380k in_d,   13408k in_c
> Swap: 2040244k av,   36896k used, 2003348k free
571516k
> cached
> 
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME CPU
> COMMAND
> 17170 root      22   0  7100 6716  1244 R    99.9  0.6   0:09   0 X
>     1 root      15   0   468  468   416 S     0.0  0.0   0:04   0 init
>     2 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:02   0
> keventd
>     3 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0
kapmd
>     4 root      34  19     0    0     0 SWN   0.0  0.0   0:00   0
> ksoftirqd/0
>     7 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0
> bdflush
>     5 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   1:05   0
kswapd
>     6 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:48   0
kscand
>     8 root      15   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:02   0
> kupdated
>     9 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0
> mdrecoveryd
>    17 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0
> scsi_eh_0
>    18 root      25   0     0    0     0 SW    0.0  0.0   0:00   0
> scsi_eh_1
>    21 root      15   0     0    0     0 RW    0.0  0.0   0:20   0
> kjournald
> 
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