CPU usage too high!
Hi.
I first want to tell you that I'm new to the linux environment and just started learning linux. To help you understand my problem I am giving you the configuration of my machine... Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz (2X2MB cache) 1GB DDR2 RAM Intel D945GCCR motherboard I had Ubuntu 6.10 installed on my machine. But whenever I started ubutu and checked the cpu usage it showed me above 50% (both CPUs) everytime. Then i switched over to Fedora 8, but the problem remains as it is. Plz help me!! |
There is a command line utility called top the will show what process(es) is using all the CPU. I am sure there are GUI utilities that do the same, but I am not familiar with them
To run top just type that word into a terminal. But you might want to review its man(ual) page first. To do that, type: man top |
In Ubuntu, the gui utility is System Monitor, in the System->Administration menu. I'm sure Fedora will have something similar.
FWIW- my cpu usage runs 40-65%, and goes to 100% on occasion, but it doesn't seem to affect performance. Cheers |
Hi.
As blackhole54 suggested i tried using the command 'top' It showed me following results... top - 20:59:17 up 7 min, 2 users, load average: 1.53, 1.32, 0.72 Tasks: 129 total, 5 running, 124 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.3%us, 41.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 45.2%id, 0.0%wa, 11.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1032540k total, 378116k used, 654424k free, 15416k buffers Swap: 522104k total, 0k used, 522104k free, 189608k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 66 root 15 -5 0 0 0 R 73 0.0 5:49.09 kacpid 67 root 15 -5 0 0 0 R 20 0.0 1:34.99 kacpi_notify 2471 root 20 0 293m 14m 6396 S 3 1.4 0:13.48 X 2958 rohit 20 0 47624 15m 11m S 1 1.6 0:00.43 gedit 2568 rohit 20 0 22112 9.8m 7228 S 1 1.0 0:00.58 metacity 2569 rohit 20 0 45036 15m 11m S 1 1.6 0:01.04 gnome-panel 2647 rohit 20 0 16996 1712 988 S 1 0.2 0:00.50 gnome-screensav 474 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 ata/0 475 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.05 ata/1 2698 rohit 20 0 76304 17m 11m R 0 1.8 0:02.25 gnome-terminal 2761 rohit 20 0 2272 1004 780 R 0 0.1 0:00.52 top 1 root 20 0 2112 656 568 S 0 0.1 0:00.88 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 can someone plz explain this to me??? |
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