Hi, Fred wrote:
For example today it is using 60% of my CPU and I do not know why.... PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5160 root 16 0 114m 11m 84m S 66.8 4.7 42:44.18 X 5884 fred 16 0 51848 15m 44m S 19.4 6.1 12:18.35 amarokapp 6724 fred 15 0 97400 39m 42m S 0.0 15.7 6:58.53 firefox-bin 5767 fred -51 0 21636 6232 14m S 3.5 2.4 2:55.46 artsd 10046 fred 15 0 150m 22m 112m S 0.0 9.0 1:04.25 soffice.bin 5907 fred 15 0 71148 38m 42m S 0.0 15.3 0:49.79 kontact 5848 fred 16 0 30968 11m 26m S 0.0 4.7 0:11.77 kdeinit 5988 fred 16 0 42240 14m 33m S 0.0 5.8 0:09.02 kdeinit 5786 fred 15 0 28152 10m 24m S 0.0 4.2 0:08.78 kdeinit
The various X applications send requests to your X server that executes them. In a way, the X server "bundles" the load but it really originates from other applications. I can see that you run Star/Open Office and Firefox. I wouldn't call these light weight applications. That "kontact" also looks like a memory eater, and if system load and memory footprint is an issue for you, than KDE is maybe not the best of a choice for a window manager. Anyway, you stress your X server and that's why your X server stresses your machine. ;-) Guido -- Imperia AG, Development Leyboldstr. 10 - D-50354 Hürth - http://www.imperia.net/