Cpu usage by X

[Rares Aioanei]

On 05/04/2010 07:23 PM, DB wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> Anyone able to give me an idea where to look......
>
> Sometimes when I start my desktop, System Monitor tells me that "X" is
> running at max CPU %-age.  Other times, "X" is 4th or 5th in the list (I
> selected the CPU column to put the highest users on top), using 1 or 2 %.
>
> So, my question to you all:  What is "X" doing&  how can I stop it doing
> whatever&  keep my CPU chip cool?????  BTW, I have no idea what X is!!!
> I've tried killing it&  that usually kills my desktop; just now killing
> it caused the system to restart.
>
> My system: uname -ar
> Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11
> 06:51:26 UTC 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> running F11&  kde installed from the F11-KDE-Livecd.
>
> As ever, Thanks for any help!
>
> Dave
>    
X is the graphical server allowing you to have a GUI; we do not know
what exactly you are doing when the X server starts spiking CPU usage
, so unless more info is provided, we can't do much. Fedora 11 is 
nearing end-of-life , upgrade ASAP.