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08-29-2004, 02:20 PM	#1
spike0 LQ Newbie Registered: Aug 2004 Posts: 10 Rep:	why would gdm use so much cpu? I just ran top, and the output is showing me that gdm is using half the CPU. If I watch it while doing no other work, the CPU for this daemon will go over 70%. This doesn't make any sense to me. This started happening only recently, as before my SETI process would use 90+ percent (as I desire) when the system is idle. Anyone have any ideas? Below is the relevant lines from top. 1742 root 15 0 11880 3120 10m S 51.1 0.8 63:59.29 gdm-binary 1951 gino 25 0 1820 612 1572 R 24.2 0.2 33:52.97 setiathome 2788 gino 15 0 24928 12m 20m S 13.3 3.2 0:02.94 gnome-terminal

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