How to clear CPU congestion?

[Jerry Davis]

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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Happy Trails!
Jerry
 
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