Re: Cpu usage by X (with more info) -even more

[DB <Freddog_de@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/05/10 21:28, users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Subject:

Cpu usage by X (with more info)

From:

DB <Freddog_de@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Date:

Tue, 04 May 2010 18:34:34 +0200

To:

Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All!

Anyone able to give me an idea where to look......

Sometimes when I start my desktop, System Monitor tells me that "X" is running at max CPU %-age.  Other times, "X" is 4th or 5th in the list (I selected the CPU column to put the highest users on top), using 1 or 2 %.

So, my question to you all:  What is "X" doing & how can I stop it doing whatever & keep my CPU chip cool?????  BTW, I have no idea what X is!!!  I've tried killing it & that usually kills my desktop; just now killing it caused the system to restart.

My system: uname -ar
Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 06:51:26 UTC 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

running F11 & kde installed from the F11-KDE-Livecd.

As ever, Thanks for any help!

Dave

Oooops, forgot to put in "top" o/p:

Tasks: 128 total,   3 running, 125 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 53.6%us, 45.4%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.7%hi,  0.3%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    510416k total,   451276k used,    59140k free,    22560k buffers
Swap:  2047992k total,     2140k used,  2045852k free,   199012k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 1922 root      20   0 72224  30m 5748 R 69.5  6.1  15:45.70 X
 2132 Dave      20   0  126m  33m  21m R 24.5  6.7   1:20.48 ksysguard
 2088 Dave      20   0  259m  28m  18m S  2.6  5.6   0:03.76 kwin
 2091 Dave      20   0  297m  24m  14m S  0.7  4.9   0:02.54 knotify4
 2092 Dave      20   0  304m  37m  23m S  0.7  7.4   0:13.00 plasma-desktop
   48 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.3  0.0   0:00.85 scsi_eh_1
 2116 Dave      20   0  274m  26m  17m S  0.3  5.3   0:01.81 krunner
 2351 Dave      20   0 89924  19m  13m S  0.3  3.9   0:04.49 konsole
 2369 Dave      20   0  2536 1076  828 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.48 top
    1 root      20   0  2000  716  632 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.72 init
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd

& there's another 100 or so processes loafing around.....

Hi again,

Here's the output from top when all is running well

top - 22:09:50 up 9 min,  3 users,  load average: 1.29, 0.88, 0.46
Tasks: 128 total,   1 running, 127 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 10.6%us,  3.3%sy,  0.0%ni, 86.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    510416k total,   493592k used,    16824k free,    25280k buffers
Swap:  2047992k total,      752k used,  2047240k free,   236980k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND                                         
 1803 Dave      20   0  120m  29m  19m S  7.3  5.9   0:34.66 ksysguard                                       
 1495 root      20   0 70836  30m 5744 S  3.3  6.1   0:32.77 X                                               
 1954 Dave      20   0 90420  21m  14m S  2.3  4.3   0:04.78 konsole                                         
 1764 Dave      20   0  301m  35m  22m S  0.3  7.1   0:08.29 plasma-desktop                                  
 1807 Dave      20   0  2436 1008  704 S  0.3  0.2   0:00.88 ksysguardd                                      
 1835 Dave      20   0 66580  12m  10m S  0.3  2.6   0:00.22 klipper                                         
 1971 Dave      20   0  2536 1076  828 R  0.3  0.2   0:00.51 top                                             
    1 root      20   0  2000  620  564 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.66 init                                            
    2 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd                                        
    3 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0                                     
    4 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0                                     
    5 root      RT  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0                                      
    6 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 events/0                                        
    7 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset                                          
    8 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper                                         
    9 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 netns                                           
   10 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 async/mgr                                       
   11 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/0                                   
   12 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 kblockd/0                                       
   13 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid                                          
   14 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpi_notify                                    
   15 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.14 ata/0        
 Etc. etc. etc.

At this time ( like in the previous example) I had nothing running.  It seems as though when the system starts up, if x gets in first it hogs everything, if not everything runs ok, temp of the CPU goes down.  When x plays up, it would appear that it carries on "whatever it's doing" even while the screen is blanked out cause when I come back the cpu temp is up to 59 deg C.

Anything else I can give anyone?

And thanks to those who have already replied!!!!!

Dave                                  

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