I just noticed that 'X' is going crazy on my server. It seems to have been using the swap partition like it was going out of style, because the hard drive was working overtime as well.

In fact, I was unable to log into the server via ssh for almost an hour because it was too overloaded, and as soon as I did, 'top' showed me this;

PID  USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
8379 root      25   0 55936   52  51m R 99.2  0.0 628:08.75 X

I should point out that the only other thing running was 'rpmq' at here are it's results from 'top', while everything else was sitting at zero,
that is no CPU or Memory was being used by any other processes.


20047 root      34  19  5564 2164 3212 R  0.3  0.4   0:00.01 rpmq

Can anyone shed some light on this? I had one terminal connected and waiting to login to the LTSP server at the time, but nothing else was happening. By looking at my network switch and ADSL modem I could see that this wasn't due to any type Internet traffic.

The moment I shut down the terminal, the server returned to normal. Could X demand that much power from the server for any particular reason when the server is essentially sitting idle?

Would this just be some sort of runaway process? I wonder how it would even start in the first place? ideas? Thoughts?

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Lanman
Registered Linux User #190712


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