On Jun 17, 2004 at 14:42, Chadley Wilson in a soothing rage wrote: >Hello Friends, > >My PC a 1,9Ghz P4 700MB ram 60 gig Segate Barracuda. running FC2 with >kernel 2.6.5-1.358 and the 5336 Nvidia driver. Bla Bla bla... > >For some reason this week only it has decided that every now and then it >will be slow. So I ran top as root and found X using 97% cpu by itself. >so I renice it to 15 (Ha ha :=}) >But the question is why? in the first place. How can I find out what is >causing this, given the only thing that was running was xmms, when I >closed it X caried on chomping my cpu! So now I have just reniced it to >19 so that I could finish my mail to you. > >PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 2536 root 30 15 167m 57m 92m R 97.3 7.5 722:50.23 X > 2737 chadley 15 0 46152 13m 17m S 1.7 1.8 35:19.91 gkrellm >10978 root 16 0 3536 916 1620 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.03 top > 1 root 16 0 1632 464 1316 S 0.0 0.1 0:04.89 init > 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 > 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.21 events/0 Like you said, you are using the 5336 Nvidia driver. If X is eating up your cpu, it stands to reason that the 5336 Nvidia driver may be the problem. Best thing to do is report it to nVidia. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 A pound of salt will not sweeten a single cup of tea. 19:12:55 up 6 days, 12:46, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
