x taking >20 % cpu (1.5 ghz)

**xaos11** · 03-06-2005

i did a reinstall just to get the bootloader back, because the rescue gui didn't seem to work. and now x constantly uses more than 20 percent of the cpu. i have a pentium 4 1.5 ghz with 384 mb ram.

**lakerdonald** · 03-06-2005

okay...what do you want us to do about it? Is X the only process running?

**xaos11** · 03-06-2005

well its all the normal processes, like a normal kde session. before i did that x only took up around 1% of the cpu. i need some idea of how to fix this. i can't really do anything without it taking forever.

**lakerdonald** · 03-06-2005

which distribution are you using?

**xaos11** · 03-07-2005

mandrake 10.1.

**lakerdonald** · 03-07-2005

So you did a full reinstall of Mandrake?

**xaos11** · 03-07-2005

no i just did the install without formatting or anything. just did the bootloader installation part.

**xaos11** · 03-08-2005

the reason i didn't do a full reinstall is because i dont want to lose all of my settings and programs that took me hours to get right

is there any way i can preserve them and reinstall? like maybe backing up some directories and reinstall, and then move the directories back? would that work?

**lakerdonald** · 03-08-2005

can you detail your "reinstall" step-by-step for me, as i'm a tad bit confused as to what you did.

**xaos11** · 03-09-2005

ok. first it asked to partition and format. and i just selected none for format. then it did the packages selection. i didn't select anything because i didn't need anything. but then it said are you sure you want to install without blah blah blah(can't remember) but the options were install x, documentation, and minimal install. i selected none. then it got to the users part, and just accepted the users. got to the bootloader part and reinstalled the bootloader. everything still works, but yeah... x taking the cpu.

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