On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:14:29 +0200, Rud Holmgren wrote: > > Having just upgraded my fc1 installation to fc2 I experience that the CPU > is constantly loaded at about 20% average. On the system monitor applet > the load appears as spikes when using a 0.5 sec update interval. The > spikes are neither regularly spaced nor equal in height. When running top > in a terminal it reports the average user space load at about 20%, approx > 1% system load, and about 80% idle time. No process in the process list > eat more than 1%-2%. > > My guess is that some process is started regularly that eats up a lot of > resources and then dies. I have tried catching this - without any luck. I > have some of the kernel userspace helper threads under suspicion (a > khelper). It's kind'a frustrating so I hope somebody has an idea at to > what is happening. Try the following: 1. Check your root mail for failed cron jobs. 2. Check /var/log/messages 3. init 3 startx >~/x.log 2>&1 Then in X ... tail -f ~/x.log and in another terminal tail -f /var/log/messages Might shed some light on the problem ... IME the initial prelink on virgin FC2 systems takes an order of magnitude longer than on FC1, but that might have a lot to do with the FC2 v.everything install having more packages (more to prelink). Could be that; have you checked /var/log/prelink.log? Although that wouldn't tell you if it segfaulted. - K.
