Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:36:29 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X (xorg 7.3) consumes all the CPU Message-ID: <20071010123629.GC3577@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <639B1B9B25D010433F197CCD@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> References: <639B1B9B25D010433F197CCD@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>
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On 2007-10-09 22:01, Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote: > Is there a way to start a process so that memory and CPU usage can be > tracked closely enough to determine what the cause of 100% CPU use > would be? I've got a box, recently installed 6.2 RELEASE with xorg > 7.3 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 than blow it away and reinstall, I'd like to try to figure out > what's wrong and fix it. What utilities could I use to do that? Are you running `powerd' in `adaptive' mode on the 100%-CPU system? I've seen this happening on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT a few times, when powerd(8) lowered the CPU frequency to a minimum and X.org started consuming 100% CPU.
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