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mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

98% cpu yikes

[edit]I found topblock to be one of the screensavers in xscreensaver. man, that's a lot to be running for a screensaver eh?
Also notice that root is running X in 3 instances.
I'm concerned about the cpu speed while the computer isn't doing anything.
I'm using kernel 2.6.18ck
3 users on logged on.
kde 3.5.5

Here is my top output:

Tasks: 122 total,   4 running, 118 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 29.2%us, 32.2%sy, 37.9%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.7%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   2076180k total,   388976k used,  1687204k free,    14272k buffers
Swap:  1020116k total,        0k used,  1020116k free,   140484k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
4189 ab         3  10 18540  12m 2884 S 31.0  0.6   4:00.95 topblock
3214 root      32   0 24556  20m 4356 R 28.6  1.0   8:17.36 X
3426 root       8   0 24688  20m 4348 S 20.6  1.0   0:19.39 X
4384 cass      39  10 18544  12m 2884 R 18.3  0.6   0:09.49 topblock
3575 root       0   0 37852  25m 4880 S  0.3  1.2   0:05.49 X
    1 root       0   0  1564  528  464 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.54 init
    2 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
    3 root       0  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    5 root       0  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 events/0
    6 root       0  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
    7 root       0  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthread
   10 root       0  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kblockd/0
   11 root      20  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
  151 root       9  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.01 kseriod
  199 root      19   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
  200 root       0   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 pdflush
  201 root      18   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kswapd0
  202 root      39  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kprefetchd
  203 root      13  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
  698 root      13  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0
  699 root      13  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux
  703 root      12  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
  704 root      12  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
  889 root      12  -5     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_2
[mcrae@blackbox ~]$

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: 98% cpu yikes

what's topblock? kill it.

cdhotfire

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From: Ocala, Florida

Registered: 2006-02-13

Posts: 151

Re: 98% cpu yikes

what's topblock? kill it.

It's his screensaver.

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phrakture

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Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: 98% cpu yikes

Looks like a crappy screensaver - topblock is hogging your CPU.  Use a better screensaver.

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mcrae

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From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

Re: 98% cpu yikes

yep, I realized it after a trip to google. I changed it. It was one of the xscreensavers called ......topblock. My kid liked it (3yr old). really cool lego blocks building things but damn it is a resource hog eh?

Thanks guys. I've been having a lot of little problems on one users desktop and then I saw that and hoped it was related........probably not.

Anyway. Thanks Again.
McRae

codemac

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From: Cliche Tech Place

Registered: 2005-05-13

Posts: 794

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Re: 98% cpu yikes

You could just configure 3D accel, then it wont take so much cpu when you used 3D screensavers.

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mcrae

Member

From: Brunswick, GA

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 88

Re: 98% cpu yikes

That's a thought. If you mean through the xscreensaver-demo interface. Otherwise ......... I'm just a user, your a developer. It's like a thirsty guy and a hydrologist looking at the ocean LOL.