On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Patrick Steranka wrote:
I would start by nicing the Xvnc it's only allowed to eat the CPU when
other things do not need to run. It's not a fix but it's a technique
I've used to help fix a box that has a run-away process.
That's a good idea when there is a single CPU and it's hard to run any
commands because Xvnc is in the way. In my case there are two quad-core
chips so I have 8 CPUs and only one was at 100%, I believe. Anyway, it
was easy to ssh in and do things -- it wasn't slow.
In the end I decided to kill Xvnc, but before I did it I used reptyr to
attach to running ssh jobs and bash shells and exit them properly, saving
the bash command histories. That was great -- I'd never heard of reptyr
until a couple of days ago.
I used ssh to attach to the Ubuntu box with Xvnc running and I ran this
command:
ps aux | grep ssh
That showed me these ssh processes and a few extraneous things:
USER PID %CPU %MEMVSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
mbmiller 3520 0.0 0.0 46944 4668 pts/5S+ Jul25 0:23 ssh -X Server
mbmiller 4602 0.0 0.0 47720 5544 pts/9S+ Aug09 1:07 ssh -X Server
mbmiller 25614 0.0 0.0 45584 3344 pts/11 S+ Sep24 0:00 ssh -X Server
I launched an xterm from which I would try to recapture those ssh
sessions. I was missing the reptyr binary, so I installed it like so:
sudo apt-get install reptyr
The reptyr man page told me that I had to do this to allow reptyr to work
(I could change the 0 back to 1 after finishing):
$ sudo su
root# echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
root# exit
After that I just ran reptyr for each process, for example:
reptyr 3520
A few lines of text would appear (the last saying Set the controlling
tty), I'd hit enter and it would give me my command prompt from my old
shell. I was then able to save command histories, etc.
Mike
From: Mike Miller mbmille...@gmail.com
To: VNC List vnc-list@realvnc.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2012 4:11 AM
Subject: CPU at 100%, no refresh, known bug, but what to do?
Here's the bug...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vnc4/+bug/819473
...and I assume that is what has happened to me. I'm running Xvnc at 100% CPU
and I can connect to it, but the screen won't refresh. I have a lot of stuff
running there and I don't want to kill all of it, so I'm hoping there's some
trick to make it refresh again.
Any ideas?
Do I just have to give up and kill Xvnc?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
--
Michael B. Miller, Ph.D.
Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota___
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