On Monday 07 Nov 2005 19:17, magnet wrote: > On Monday 07 Nov 2005 18:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > 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. > > I'm not running Mozilla apps on this box. It's been built as a pure number > cruncher box so has a minimum install. I turned it off for a longer period > and then went thru mcc enabling and then disabling the services again. So > far it is behaving itself so this might be cured now. Will leave it running > over-night to confirm X is not going to slip into runaway mode again. > > magnet
Update: 10 hours later and boxs all now working fine. Thanks for your help :) - magnet
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