I don't think taking two ram sticks will fix this one - swap is hardly used. Hellafunny prescription, though :) Upgrade X and/or your video drivers (if they are vendor specific) and see if it the problem goes away. Update your whole system. If you have a GPU with a fan, ensure the fan spins freely. If fan is sluggish, replace. What were the answers to the questions/procedures posed below? George Toft, CISSP, MSIS 623-203-1760 Jerry Davis wrote: > On Thursday 22 February 2007 15:09, der.hans wrote: > > take two ram sticks and call me in the morning. > > > >>Am 12. Feb, 2007 schwätzte Josef Lowder so: >> >>>. >>>I asked this question a while ago and never did get a solution, >>>so thought I would try again. My system normally runs with a >>>very small number appearing for "X" under %CPU ... but sometimes >>>something happenss that causes it to jump to a high number (as >>>shown below) and the only way I have found to clear it is to >>>reboot. Then it runs fine for quite a while until the same >>>problem occurs again. Surely there must be some way to clear out >>>whatever is causing this log jam other than reboot. >>> >>>Any suggestions? >> >>Try switching to a virtual console and back. >> >> >> >> >>Another thing is to check for apps with memory leaks. Once in top, use m >>to sort by memory usage. If you see another application, usually a web >>browser for me, using a lot of memory, quit that application. Normally >>when this happens for me X is also using a lot of memory. >> >>Usually quitting whatever application gets X to also release the extra >>resources and everything's fine again. >> >>Looks like what you're experiencing isn't due to heavy memory usage, but >>maybe that'll help anyway. >> >>ciao, >> >>der.hans >> >> >>>top - 11:12:12 up 7 days, 2:14, 5 users, load average: 1.01, 1.07, >>>1.08 Tasks: 82 total, 2 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie >>>Cpu(s): 56.3% us, 11.6% sy, 5.9% ni, 25.9% id, 0.1% wa, 0.2% hi, 0.0% >>>si Mem: 515484k total, 417720k used, 97764k free, 11952k >>>buffers Swap: 2096440k total, 2696k used, 2093744k free, 244728k >>>cached >>> >>> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND >>>3364 root 25 0 48356 38m 4732 R 97.2 7.6 6673:44 X >>> 1 root 16 0 1564 540 472 S 0.0 0.1 0:02.50 init >>> 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 >>> 3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:02.82 events/0 >>> 4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 khelper >>> 5 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread >>> 7 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid >>> 81 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.11 kblockd/0 >>> 113 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.62 pdflush >>> 114 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.34 pdflush >>> 116 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 >>> 115 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.71 kswapd0 >>> 704 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kseriod >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------------------------- > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss