Cpu usage by X

g geleem at bellsouth.net
Tue May 4 19:02:43 UTC 2010


Rares Aioanei wrote:
> On 05/04/2010 07:23 PM, DB wrote:
>> Hi All!
>>
>> Anyone able to give me an idea where to look......
<snip>
>> 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!!!
<snip>
> 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

open a virtual terminal and run 'top' to see what is using cpu.

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