On 14/10/06, James Wilkinson <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Wendel wrote: > Look at the Xorg Time. Doesn't 347:19.29 with an uptime of 15:35 seem > extremely high? On my box, X uses about 4 minutes / hour of uptime. > > And the load averages on most of the desktops I use are mostly in the > 0.1 - 0.3 range. This box has something eating CPU. I don't think the > file system is the problem. Dotan Cohen replied: > Thanks, John. What would be a first good step to diagnos this? First thing *I'd* check is that you're not using a VESA driver. That *will* eat processor time, since it's getting the processor to do a lot of stuff that a graphics card will do much more efficiently. Hope this helps, James.
Thanks. This motherboard has the graphic card built in- I just plug the monitor into the back of the m/b. Note that it has an onboard soundcard and an onboard ethernet port as well, both of which I replaced with PCI devices. The onboard sound is trash, and I'm not sure about the onboard ethernet. So, how can I check if I'm using a VESA driver? Thanks for all the help and patience. Dotan Cohen http://gmail-com.com/howto/filters.php http://olnu.com
