X taking up a lot CPU time
Lately our main server running RHEL AS3 indicates high CPU Time by X.
Performance degrades by time as this value increases and eventually hung up the operating system (even some users still can connect to the application/database).
Below is a snapshot of TOP:
330 processes: 327 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle
total 78.3% 0.0% 4.8% 0.0% 1.8% 0.0% 14.8%
cpu00 70.4% 0.0% 7.1% 0.0% 3.7% 0.0% 18.5%
cpu01 86.2% 0.0% 2.5% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 11.1%
Mem: 4016448k av, 4002876k used, 13572k free, 0k shrd, 57876k buff
2888164k actv, 548780k in_d, 82492k in_c
Swap: 20482864k av, 1206212k used, 19276652k free 3157980k cache
d
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND
9826 oraerpp 25 0 78732 69M 69348 R 46.3 1.7 2:09 1 oracle
8162 oraerpp 19 0 165M 160M 153M R 30.9 4.0 0:30 0 oracle
1084 root 15 0 17736 3280 1100 S 1.9 0.0 143:40 0 X
2323 applerpp 15 0 15924 10M 1584 S 1.1 0.2 2:19 0 java
1737 applerpp 15 0 90756 47M 1340 S 0.5 1.2 2:09 1 java
2696 applerpp 15 0 18832 12M 2096 S 0.3 0.3 3:07 1 java
1738 applerpp 15 0 91336 47M 1340 S 0.2 1.2 1:57 0 java
1736 applerpp 15 0 169M 64M 2404 S 0.1 1.6 3:43 1 java
2370 applerpp 15 0 3920 2900 604 S 0.1 0.0 2:30 1 jre
2499 applerpp 15 0 15924 10M 1584 S 0.1 0.2 0:21 0 java
9290 root 16 0 1624 1624 972 R 0.1 0.0 0:01 1 top
1 root 15 0 536 488 452 S 0.0 0.0 0:09 1 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 0 migration/0
3 root RT 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 1 migration/1
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ps -eo "pid pcpu comm args" --sort "pcpu"
PID %CPU COMMAND COMMAND
1 0.0 init init
2 0.0 migration/0 [migration/0]
3 0.0 migration/1 [migration/1]
4 0.0 keventd [keventd]
5 0.0 ksoftirqd/0 [ksoftirqd/0]
6 0.0 ksoftirqd/1 [ksoftirqd/1]
9 0.0 bdflush [bdflush]
10 0.0 kupdated [kupdated]
11 0.0 mdrecoveryd [mdrecoveryd]
20 0.0 kjournald [kjournald]
75 0.0 khubd [khubd]
307 0.0 kjournald [kjournald]
308 0.0 kjournald [kjournald]
309 0.0 kjournald [kjournald]
310 0.0 kjournald [kjournald]
311 0.0 kjournald [kjournald]
312 0.0 kjournald [kjournald]
313 0.0 kjournald [kjournald]
657 0.0 syslogd syslogd -m 0
661 0.0 klogd klogd -x
680 0.0 portmap portmap
700 0.0 rpc.statd rpc.statd
713 0.0 auditd /sbin/auditd
780 0.0 acpid /usr/sbin/acpid
792 0.0 cupsd cupsd
835 0.0 sshd /usr/sbin/sshd
851 0.0 xinetd xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
874 0.0 rpc.rquotad rpc.rquotad
878 0.0 nfsd [nfsd]
879 0.0 nfsd [nfsd]
880 0.0 nfsd [nfsd]
881 0.0 nfsd [nfsd]
882 0.0 nfsd [nfsd]
883 0.0 nfsd [nfsd]
884 0.0 nfsd [nfsd]
885 0.0 nfsd [nfsd]
886 0.0 lockd [lockd]
887 0.0 rpciod [rpciod]
893 0.0 rpc.mountd rpc.mountd
903 0.0 vsftpd /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf
923 0.0 sendmail sendmail: accepting connections
932 0.0 sendmail sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clien
943 0.0 gpm gpm -t ps/2 -m /dev/mouse
953 0.0 crond crond
977 0.0 xfs xfs -droppriv -daemon
987 0.0 atd /usr/sbin/atd
1003 0.0 mdadm mdadm --monitor --scan
1015 0.0 mdmpd mdmpd
1023 0.0 mingetty /sbin/mingetty tty1
1024 0.0 mingetty /sbin/mingetty tty2
1025 0.0 mingetty /sbin/mingetty tty3
1026 0.0 mingetty /sbin/mingetty tty4
1027 0.0 mingetty /sbin/mingetty tty5
1028 0.0 mingetty /sbin/mingetty tty6
1029 0.0 gdm-binary /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
1083 0.0 gdm-binary /usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon
1094 0.0 gnome-session /usr/bin/gnome-session
1160 0.0 ssh-agent /usr/bin/ssh-agent /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
1170 0.0 gconfd-2 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 5
1173 0.0 bonobo-activati /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate
1175 0.0 gnome-settings- gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOM
1180 0.0 fam fam
1187 0.0 metacity /usr/bin/metacity --sm-client-id=default1
1191 0.0 gnome-panel gnome-panel --sm-client-id default2
1193 0.0 nautilus nautilus --no-default-window --sm-client-id default3
1198 0.0 eggcups eggcups --sm-client-id default6
1200 0.0 pam-panel-icon pam-panel-icon --sm-client-id default0
1203 0.0 pam_timestamp_c /sbin/pam_timestamp_check -d root
1213 0.0 notification-ar /usr/libexec/notification-area-applet --oaf-activate
5641 0.0 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
6754 0.0 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,930,orapps_9000_ERPP
7041 0.0 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
7091 0.0 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
7181 0.0 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
7579 0.0 in.telnetd in.telnetd: 10.10.0.24
7580 0.0 login login -- root
7639 0.0 ps ps -eo pid pcpu comm args --sort pcpu
7 0.1 kswapd [kswapd]
8 0.1 kscand [kscand]
1402 0.1 oracle ora_j000_ERPP
1736 0.1 java /usr/java/jdk1.3.1_02/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/ja
30931 0.1 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,897,orapps_9000_ERPP
32038 0.1 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
2203 0.1 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,913,orapps_9000_ERPP
5259 0.1 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,924,orapps_9000_ERPP
5512 0.1 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
7329 0.1 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,932,orapps_9000_ERPP
2858 0.2 gnome-system-mo gnome-system-monitor
31642 0.2 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,900,orapps_9000_ERPP
32511 0.3 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
32616 0.3 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,905,orapps_9000_ERPP
6465 0.3 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,929,orapps_9000_ERPP
1195 0.4 magicdev magicdev --sm-client-id default4
1202 0.4 rhn-applet-gui /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/rhn-applet-gui --sm-client-
7089 0.4 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,931,orapps_9000_ERPP
32667 0.5 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
31499 0.6 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
7395 0.6 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
31009 0.7 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,898,orapps_9000_ERPP
32192 0.9 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,903,orapps_9000_ERPP
32647 0.9 f60webmx f60webmx webfile=5,906,orapps_9000_ERPP
7584 1.0 bash -bash
6787 2.0 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
32735 3.4 oracle oracleERPP (LOCAL=NO)
1084 4.4 X /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
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Can anyone give me a hint on what exactly causes this or where to look further?
TIA!
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