On Monday 07 November 2005 19:21, magnet wrote: > On Monday 07 Nov 2005 16:21, magnet wrote: > > On Monday 07 Nov 2005 08:34, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > > On Monday 07 November 2005 04:19, magnet wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > Running 2006 rc2 on an athlon64 with 2gb ram. Can anyone explain why > > > > X is using so much processor time and how I can fix this please? > > > > > > From the 2006 errata page : > > > > > > "If you have an ACPI-enabled system on which both acpid and X.org are > > > running, you may experience high CPU usage in the release version of > > > Mandriva Linux 2006. > > > > <snipped> > > > > >As a workaround, you can turn off the acpid > > > service, or stop logrotate from rotating the acpid log file by removing > > > the file /etc/logrotate.d/acpid > > > > I have stopped the service and deleted the file, so lets hope this > > temporary fix works ok on these machines. Thanks again Kaj :) > > > > magnet > > Nope, even after doing the above followed by a powered down reboot, X has > jumped back up to 75-80% after a short while of resuming using the system. > > magnet
Hmmm.... I vaguely remember something from the cooker list pertaining to the problem. It was related to Mozilla running in KDE. What happens if you shut down all Mozilla apps. (like firefox, thunderbird) and then <Ctrl+Alt+Backspace> to kill KDE. Then log in anew ? Kaj Haulrich. -- ***Sent from a 100% Microsoft-free PC*** ***Running Linux (Mandriva 2006)***
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