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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server?
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:02:15
Message-Id: 200911250221.10852.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server? by Mick
1 On Wednesday 25 November 2009 01:34:55 Mick wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 24 November 2009 17:55:20 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > on one of several machines and only occasionally
6 > > my X-server (/usr/bin/X) takes nearly 100% CPU.
7 > > I have killed some applications but this didn't help
8 > > unless I killed X itself and restarted it.
9 > >
10 > > Is there any way to find out what is hogging my X server?
11 > >
12 > > Many thanks for a hint,
13 >
14 > I'll be stating the obvious, like ps axf and lsof perhaps?
15 >
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17 xrestop is also useful
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21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] what is overloaded my X server? Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>