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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 21:30:22 +0000 (UTC)

andrew.mccall@gmail.com (Andrew McCall) writes in comp.sys.sun.admin:
|I have three newly installed servers that if left idle their processor
|usage shoots up to 49% as can be seen from this prstat:
|
|PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
|627 root 77M 7512K cpu2 10 0 3:45:00 49% Xsun/1
|19458 root 4560K 4232K cpu0 49 0 0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
|
|...(load of other stuff cut out!)
|
|Total: 51 processes, 161 lwps, load averages: 1.27, 1.31, 1.33
|
|I have tried to track down whats causing this, but can't work it out!
|If I actually go to the server and move the mouse or press a key the
|XDM screen appears and the processor usage drops so I am presuming its
|a screensaver or something.
|
|I have removed the screen saver when root is logged in, but this
|problem is actually at the XDM login screen, not when root is logged
|in.

Check your Xsun and frame buffer driver patches. There have been a
couple of bugs that caused the system to eat CPU when activating power
management that have been fixed in those patches.

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