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#1 2017-08-19 14:30:48

blippy
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autocutsel consuming 100% of Cpu2

A few weeks ago, I noticed that my Arch system sometimes made a noise. I thought it was maybe a hardware issue, like the disk was in continual use and maybe manifesting a fault. it happened infrequently, and I didn't think much about it.

However, the problem recurred just now. Running 'top', I saw that 'autocutsel' was using 100% of Cpu2, and is running under systemd. I have LDXE running on a vncserver.

How can I actually stop/restart autocutsel? It doesn't exist as a service, and typing "sudo systemctl restart vncserver" didn't help, either. In the end I just rebooted my computer, which seems a bit of a Microsofty approach.

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#2 2017-08-21 12:51:47

drcouzelis
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Re: autocutsel consuming 100% of Cpu2

Where do you start "autocutsel"? For example, I start it in my "~/.xinitrc" file.

Please post the contents of the file that starts "autocutsel".

You can kill it by running "killall autocutsel".

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#3 2017-08-31 07:04:32

blippy
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Re: autocutsel consuming 100% of Cpu2

$HOME/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart contains the line:
@autocutsel -f

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#4 2017-08-31 07:32:24

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Re: autocutsel consuming 100% of Cpu2

What makes you think it is running under systemd? Please paste the output of:

systemctl --user list-unit-files --state=enabled && systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

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#5 2017-08-31 12:29:22

drcouzelis
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Re: autocutsel consuming 100% of Cpu2

Here is a list of clipboard managers: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cl … d_managers

Do you have any other clipboard managers installed?

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#6 2017-09-01 12:45:59

blippy
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Re: autocutsel consuming 100% of Cpu2

xclip is also installed.

I think it's running under systemd because when I type top, it appears in the systemd hierarchy:
systemd - autocutsel

Maybe it's clashing with lxclipboard, because I also see:
systemd - perl - sh - lxsession - lxclipboard

Executing
     systemctl --user list-unit-files --state=enabled && systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled
yields:
0 unit files listed.
UNIT FILE                 STATE
autovt@.service           enabled
cronie.service            enabled
getty@.service            enabled
netctl@static.service     enabled
nfs-server.service        enabled
nginx.service             enabled
postfix.service           enabled
postgresql.service        enabled
privoxy.service           enabled
smbd.service              enabled
sshd.service              enabled
systemd-timesyncd.service enabled
vncserver@:1.service      enabled
remote-fs.target          enabled

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#7 2017-09-01 16:45:18

drcouzelis
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Re: autocutsel consuming 100% of Cpu2

According to the output of "pstree" on my computer, EVERYTHING is owned by "systemd".

You can try uninstalling "xclip". You can't uninstall "lxclipboard"... but the next time "autocutsel" acts up, you could try killing the "lxclipboard" process, and see if things clear up?

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#8 2017-09-03 07:36:06

blippy
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Re: autocutsel consuming 100% of Cpu2

OK thanks. It's not a problem that occurs often, but when it does, I can hear my computer whirling away.

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