Something very wrong with my CPU

ziggamon · 10-17-2003, 09:10 AM

Hi!

Sometimes, suddenly, and for no apparent reason, something starts eating all of my CPU, making my computer extremely slow and sensitive. This time X got shut down. anyone know what may be causing it?

also, I've noticed that my Processor temp often (and not necessary at the same time as the above) rises up to as much as 65*C ... could this be related?

Just wanna find out what's wrong and what to do with it!

jkobrien · 10-17-2003, 09:15 AM

Have you tried watching it with top?

ziggamon · 10-17-2003, 09:17 AM

didn't understand that... wanna explan?

jkobrien · 10-17-2003, 09:45 AM

Oh, sorry.

top is a program that lets you see what processes are running, how much memory they're taking up, etc. Just type "top" in a xterm.

It's not clear from your mail whether this problem is always followed immediately by a crash or whether it sometimes just goes away of its own accord. If the latter, or if the crash doesn't happen immediately, watching the output from top might give you some clues as to what's eating your cpu.

Also you can root around under /var/log, and try looking at "man syslog".

John

ziggamon · 10-17-2003, 09:54 AM

thank you!

next time that happens, I will do that!