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Date:      Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:01:50 -0500
From:      Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   X (xorg 7.3) consumes all the CPU
Message-ID:  <639B1B9B25D010433F197CCD@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local>

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Is there a way to start a process so that memory and CPU usage can be=20
tracked closely enough to determine what the cause of 100% CPU use would=20
be?  I've got a box, recently installed 6.2 RELEASE with xorg 7.3=20
installed, and when X is started, CPU goes to 100% and stays there.

Here's the bad machine
 1510 pauls         1   0    0   277M  7076K rdnrel 0  13:41 100.05% Xorg

Here's my desktop
  868 root          1  96    0   202M   134M select 119:09  0.00% Xorg

As you can see, memory and CPU use is sky high on the "bad" box.  Rather=20
than blow it away and reinstall, I'd like to try to figure out what's=20
wrong and fix it.  What utilities could I use to do that?

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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