Re: High system CPU% and load in pre[7,8,9]

Greg Patterson (gomer@gomer.mlink.net)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 14:24:54 -0500 (EST)


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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Baba Buehler wrote:

> Under pre7,8 and 9 the machine stays at a load of about 0.3, top reports a
> constant use of about 5% of the CPU by X and from 10-30% in system. No
> swap is in use.
>
> Machine: Dual P2 400, 256MB RAM
> Kernels: 2.2-pre[7,8,9] SMP
> Install: RedHat 5.2 + updates for 2.2kernels
> X Server: AcceleratedX 4.1
>
> I'd like to track this down further, but am not sure what to check. Does
> anyone have any ideas for better tracking this down?

You did not mention what window manager you are using so I am assuming it
is WindowMaker 0.19.x (or earlier?). Try 0.50.x, *something* changed with
pre7 that caused wmaker to freak out with oldselect() or ioctl() somewhere
so its busy looping.

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