How to clear CPU congestion?

[Kenneth]

--- Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:

> .
> My system cruises along fine for days without any CPU overload
> ('top' normally shows CPU usage at about 2%) ... and then something 
> happens (I don't know what) that causes the CPU% (as shown in the 
> 'top' results below) to shoot up to 90+%. 
> 
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  3098 root      25   0 80492  62m 4460 S 98.9 12.5   5233:50 X

This shows X taking 98.9% of the CPU.  screensaver perhaps?

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