X with ~100% of cpu usage

mjsilva · #1 1st July 2008, 10:49 AM

Hi there,

I have a problem in my Fedora 8 that keeps buging me, mostly when I leave my computer with a user logged on X, the X processes starts to consume a lot of cpu.

I didn't find what is cousing this, can someone help me trace it?

Here are some thing that could help:

Top to X:

Code:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
12491 root      20   0  619m  67m 7664 R   89  3.4 544:43.67 /usr/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-igxpRY

Xstrace to X pid:

http://pastebin.com/f7c558e7c

ps axu

http://pastebin.com/f726a844b

cat /etc/redhat-release

Code:

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)

uname -r

Code:

2.6.25.6-27.fc8

Tks in advance

mjsilva · #2 2nd July 2008, 01:19 AM

sorry to insist but this is driving me crazy!!

Dunno what else I can to to find what's causing this all I see is X hanging and using a lot of CPU...

Is there any other way I can see what can be causing this?

Can I change my X version?

The result of rpm -qa | grep xorg is:

Code:

xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.2-3.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-penmount-1.1.0-3.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-rendition-4.1.3-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-nsc-2.8.1-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-tseng-1.1.0-7.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-s3-0.5.0-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-vmmouse-12.4.3-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.2.0-5.fc8
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-46.fc8
xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-2.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-nv-2.1.6-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-2.1.6-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs-173.14.09-1.lvn8
xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.2-3.fc8
xorg-x11-twm-1.0.3-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.2.3-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.1.1-7.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-trident-1.2.3-6.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-calcomp-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-tdfx-1.3.0-6.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-apm-1.1.1-7.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-glint-1.1.1-7.fc8
xorg-x11-filesystem-7.1-2.fc6
xorg-x11-apps-7.3-1.fc8
xorg-x11-font-utils-7.2-2.fc8
xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-2.fc8
xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.1.2-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-keyboard-1.2.2-2.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-neomagic-1.1.1-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-hyperpen-1.1.0-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-dmc-1.1.0-3.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-palmax-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-ast-0.81.0-6.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev-0.3.1-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-chips-1.1.1-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-avivo-0.0.1-6.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-jamstudio-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-ur98-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-spaceorb-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-via-0.2.2-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-i740-1.1.0-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-cyrix-1.1.0-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-summa-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-amd-2.7.7.7-2.fc8
xorg-x11-utils-7.3-1.fc8
xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.2-3.fc8
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.2-3.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-173.14.09-1.lvn8
xorg-x11-drv-vesa-1.3.0-10.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-elographics-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-ark-0.6.0-6.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-tek4957-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-i128-1.2.1-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-fpit-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-microtouch-1.1.0-2.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-voodoo-1.1.1-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-citron-2.2.0-2.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.1.0-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-siliconmotion-1.5.1-3.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-dynapro-1.1.0-3.fc7
xorg-x11-drv-v4l-0.1.1-8.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-mutouch-1.1.0-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drivers-7.2-9.fc8
xorg-x11-xkb-utils-7.2-3.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-aiptek-1.0.1-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-s3virge-1.9.1-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-acecad-1.1.0-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-sisusb-0.8.1-9.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-digitaledge-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-void-1.1.1-6.fc8
xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.2-3.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-magictouch-1.0.0.5-5.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-vmware-10.15.2-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-magellan-1.1.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-savage-2.1.3-1.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-mga-1.4.6.1-6.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-sis-0.9.3-4.fc8
xorg-x11-drv-ati-6.8.0-4.fc8
xorg-x11-xdm-1.1.6-2.fc8

My Xorg.conf:

Code:

# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia"
        ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option      "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
        Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
        Option      "XkbLayout" "pt"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        ModelName    "Monitor 1600x1200"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 107.5
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 85.0
        Option      "dpms"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
        Option      "RenderAccel" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Videocard0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     24
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes    "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1280x800" "1280x720" "1152x864" "1152x768" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

JEO · #3 2nd July 2008, 02:34 AM

For a workaround for each user in gnome go to System, Preferences, Look and Feel, Screensaver. Uncheck "activate screensaver when computer is idle" then click the power management button, and move the sliders all the way to the right for the never put the computer and the display to sleep. I wrote this from Fedora 9, but 8's options should be very similar.