From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 03:01:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2508816A418 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:01:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from smtp3.utdallas.edu (smtp3.utdallas.edu [129.110.10.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB99813C480 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:01:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pauls@utdallas.edu) Received: from [192.168.2.102] (cpe-76-185-121-253.tx.res.rr.com [76.185.121.253]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp3.utdallas.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B398365500 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 22:01:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:01:50 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <639B1B9B25D010433F197CCD@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; boundary="==========98DE21DAF7CC21F20296==========" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: X (xorg 7.3) consumes all the CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:01:48 -0000 --==========98DE21DAF7CC21F20296========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Is there a way to start a process so that memory and CPU usage can be=20 tracked closely enough to determine what the cause of 100% CPU use would=20 be? I've got a box, recently installed 6.2 RELEASE with xorg 7.3=20 installed, and when X is started, CPU goes to 100% and stays there. Here's the bad machine 1510 pauls 1 0 0 277M 7076K rdnrel 0 13:41 100.05% Xorg Here's my desktop 868 root 1 96 0 202M 134M select 119:09 0.00% Xorg As you can see, memory and CPU use is sky high on the "bad" box. Rather=20 than blow it away and reinstall, I'd like to try to figure out what's=20 wrong and fix it. What utilities could I use to do that? Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========98DE21DAF7CC21F20296==========--