openSuSE-11.1 100% CPU Usage

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#1

Hi folks.

I’m running openSuSE-11.1 under VMware Fusion on Mac OS X 10.5.6.

After the install and things having settled, the X process seems to steadily run at 100% CPU utilization, occasionally dipping to 98% but then goes back up to 100% (and in some cases, 103%).

This is causing my laptop’s fan to work double time, as well as creating much more heat.

I’ve looked at and tried everything under the sun to get CPU down to idle, but no joy. I’ve also looked at:

CPU usage 11.1 KDE 4.1 - openSUSE Forums

but still no luck either.

I’ve been running openSuSE on my virtual machine since version 10, with no problems. openSuSE-11.0 also had no problems.

It was only after moving to 11.1 that I’m now seeing this.

Any clues on how to fix this? I see it’s come up a number of times since 11.1 started shipping.

#2

When it happens, please issue a “top” command as root and post the output here (at least the 10 first lines).

#3

Here you go:

top - 17:08:02 up 1 day, 2:28, 1 user, load average: 1.65, 1.20, 1.06
Tasks: 139 total, 2 running, 124 sleeping, 0 stopped, 13 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.2%us, 13.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 73.7%id, 0.8%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 505700k total, 499676k used, 6024k free, 30560k buffers
Swap: 522104k total, 391412k used, 130692k free, 124248k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3742 root 20 0 132m 44m 2692 R 102 9.0 774:22.22 X
3704 root 20 0 2320 552 496 S 4 0.1 0:00.76 cron
26894 root 20 0 2412 912 680 R 4 0.2 0:00.02 top
1 root 20 0 1008 72 44 S 0 0.0 0:05.60 init
2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.88 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:19.04 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.98 migration/1
6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:21.62 ksoftirqd/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:10.48 events/0
8 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:12.90 events/1
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1
12 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:04.04 kblockd/0
13 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.44 kblockd/1
14 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.54 kacpid
15 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.04 kacpi_notify
16 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue
17 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
18 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kondemand/0
19 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kondemand/1
21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:26.94 pdflush
22 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:21.14 kswapd0
23 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
24 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1
25 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused
72 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:03.56 mpt_poll_0
73 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 mpt/0
74 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
80 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:35.84 ata/0
81 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:55.61 ata/1
82 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux
85 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
86 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:39.93 scsi_eh_2

#4

Are you using desktop effects? an, what graphics card and driver are you using?

#5

I’m still using the default desktop that gets installed with KDE-4.1.3. Would disabling that help?

The MacBook comes with an Intel GMA 950 with 64MB of shared memory.

#6

I asked that to narrow the search for your problem.
Make sure you have 3d acceleration enabled in Yast > Hardware > Graphics.
Also you can try disabling the desktop effects in control panel (or personal settings, whatever the name is now).
And failing all that, try installing KDE 3.5. Then starting the session in 3.5 might tell you whether it’s a kde4 problem with your graphics driver.