Re: [LI] Time lapse in X.

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 08:36:12PM +0530, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
> strace -f -o strace.log startx   generated a 2.5 MB file. I can't make head
> or tail of it.
> 
> top.log shows X hoging upto 93% of cpu.
> 
> My installation has nothing essential on it, would a full re install help ?
> 

Does it still take a long time to come up ? strace.log contains the 
set of system calls X makes. I was expecting it to be relatively
small - but apparently it isn't.

Is X taking consistently 90% of the CPU over the 18 mins 
or is it just a spike ? If it is consistently taking 90% of the CPU,
then something's got to be wrong. Are you sure that this is not due
to the machine swapping ? Is Linux seeing all the memory on the machine ?
(cat /proc/meminfo or free should tell you that). 

	-Arun
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