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.
>
> <ctrl><f1>
> <ctrl><f7>
>
> 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
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------
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Jerry
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