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.
>>
>><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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>
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