Xorg slow down rquires a kill

[Michael Havens]

okay. I'll post top before I have to do it again.... this is what it says now 
though:

bmike1 at 1[~]$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        385728     357416      28312          0      29736     157252
-/+ buffers/cache:     170428     215300
Swap:            0          0          0
[6]+  Done                    oowriter

bmike1 at 1[~]$top
top - 18:03:53 up 9 days, 20:31,  2 users,  load average: 0.79, 0.41, 0.30
Tasks:  79 total,   1 running,  78 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 10.2% us,  3.0% sy,  0.0% ni, 86.8% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    385728k total,   357724k used,    28004k free,    29824k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,   157304k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
32070 bmike1    15   0  138m  70m  22m S  6.9 18.7  71:11.74 firefox-bin
31577 root       5 -10 76000  24m 3084 S  1.7  6.5  22:06.00 Xorg
31475 root      16   0  2256  672  456 S  1.3  0.2  12:47.66 top
31800 bmike1    16   0 29952  14m  11m S  1.0  3.8   0:07.70 konsole
 4604 bmike1    16   0  2252 1056  844 R  1.0  0.3   0:00.12 top
 5205 hal       17   0  4444 1536  524 S  0.3  0.4  25:11.74 hald
31783 bmike1    15   0 36664  16m  13m S  0.3  4.5   1:10.54 kicker
    1 root      16   0  2048  156   60 S  0.0  0.0   0:07.22 init
    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   1:49.19 ksoftirqd/0
    3 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    4 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:07.14 events/0
    5 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.43 khelper
    6 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
    8 root      10  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:06.84 kblockd/0
    9 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
   64 root      11  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.03 khubd
  106 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.48 pdflush
bmike1 at 1[                      


On Thursday 24 April 2008 5:30 pm, Matt Graham wrote:
> > This is a pretty broad question. How much swap are you using? Are you
> > maxed out on memory? Is it really a K6? show what "free" has to say.
> > Prior to restarting X use top to find out what the whole picutre is
> > because maybe its something else (perhaps kde? or a gnome app gone
> > wild?).
>
> Also, which version of which distro are you using, and which version of X? 
> A number of SuSE versions shipped with buggy X that could fall into a loop
> of calling gettimeofday() over and over and over again.  A high-end K6-3
> could easily be usable for light tasks if it had enough memory.  A PIII-900
> could run KDE 3.3 with only 384M, after all.  The thing that's actually
> more likely than KDE or GNOME eating all the memory is a Java or Flash app
> invoked from Firefox using up tons of memory.  KDE's a pig, but it uses
> ~500M and stays there.  Bad Java and bad Flash will eat all the RAM you
> have and then some.