On Fri, 19 Oct 2018 19:28:39 +0200 Ulli Horlacher <frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> I am running xubuntu 16.04. > Xorg eats up one CPU: > > top - 19:24:43 up 10 min, 4 users, load average: 1.18, 1.03, 0.62 > Tasks: 297 total, 2 running, 294 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie > %Cpu(s): 11.7 us, 1.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 87.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 > si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 16256752 total, 14530104 free, 404704 used, > 1321944 buff/cache KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16777212 free, 0 > used. 15464540 avail Mem > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND 3095 framstag 20 0 218696 47332 36188 R 99.7 0.3 > 9:15.09 Xorg 3205 framstag 20 0 369688 22404 12384 S 5.0 > 0.1 0:31.11 xfsettingsd 3881 framstag 20 0 44208 4272 3580 > R 0.3 0.0 0:00.70 top > > When I do a "strace -p 3095" the system freezes and I have to press > the power button :-( > > Any idea what is going on and how to debug it? > > What browsers are you using, and how many tabs do you use in each. My experience is that piggy browsers like Firefox and Chrome/Chromium make X swell up. When X' usage exceeds 90%, do killall -9 on all web browsers. Most of the time the problem subsides. SteveT Steve Litt September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
