[PLUG] debug CPU eating process

Anthony Schlemmer aschlemm at attbi.com
Mon Sep 30 21:42:53 UTC 2002


I see this sort of thing in KDE when I go to Yahoo.com sometimes. I get 
a page with a huge online casino ad with lots of flashing crap and 
Konqueror becomes very sluggish to the point where it's nearly 
unusable. Once I go to a different web page the CPU usage drops down 
considerably.

Tony

On Monday 30 September 2002 13:39 pm, Shannon C. Dealy wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Kris wrote:
> > So I'm running Debian unstable.  On and off X and
> > WindowMaker have gone off on a CPU eating binge brining my world of
> > X to a crawl...
>
> [snip]
>
> The few times I've seen something like this, it wasn't X or the
> window manager, but rather some process that was sending alot of
> display modification/update requests (in one case a program made the
> mouse pointer look like it was on a caffine high, it would just sit
> there vibrating
>
> :-)  It might not be elegant, but the simplest approach I have found
> : for
>
> this type of problem was to just start "top" in a window, exit out of
> everthing I had running, one program at a time and check to see if
> the problem went away after exiting each program.  If after this was
> done it still had problems, I would start killing anything else that
> was running which might have access to the X environment, such as
> window manager applets (these are often a source of problems), until
> the problem went away, or there was nothing left (so far I have never
> gotten to the point that only X was left and the problem was still
> happening).
>
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Anthony Schlemmer
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