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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # "Be in a unit like W, he was in the same national guard unit as bigfoot, # about the same number of sightings." -- Robin Williams, 03Aug2006