dick@sprite.stanford.edu (Richard Roy) (11/21/89)
I have a DECStation 3100 running UWS-2.1, and am using Xcfb, xdm, and awm. Occasionally, while the system is ostensibly idle, Xcfb will start chewing up inordinate amounts of CPU, raising the load average to nearly 2! It will remain there (with the system still unloaded) apparently until some widow activity, e.g. attempt to expose a window by clicking at the titlebar (an action set up in .awmrc). The window does not expose, but the load average immediately drops to essentailly 0! This would appear to be an awm/Xcfb interaction where someone is continuously polling for input perhaps. Has anyone experienced this and is there a "fix"? RR dick@isl.stanford.edu