Hi, my cpu usage is 100% every time.
With 'TOP' the user charge is betwin 80% an 95% and idle is 0.0% but
when I search what process saturate my box, nothing seems too high.
The sum of charge of this processes doesn't exceed 5% ???

Somebody can help me please...... I would like to KNOW what process or module charging my box.

Thanks.

My config :
Box with 750Mb Ram, P4 2.6 Ghz, 80 Go UDMA ATA Drive.
Nvidia GeForce2 Ultra.

Linux Slackware 12.0, X11, NVIDIA Driver 7185, VirtualBox 1.5 Kernel Module.

Try run top again, and type 'i'. From here, you should be able to see which task is taking a lot of your CPU resources.

I forgot, you should do:

This should list down the processes in the system and list them in ascending order of CPU usage. Refer to ps man-page for more details.

Thanks I try your solution and :

top - 14:13:22 up 1:45, 4 users, load average: 1.96, 1.91, 1.99
Tasks: 84 total, 3 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 91.0%us, 8.6%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 775328k total, 467352k used, 307976k free, 23388k buffers
Swap: 1646620k total, 0k used, 1646620k free, 293848k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
25648 root 25 0 5892 1848 1324 R 1.3 0.2 0:00.04 nmbd
21976 sjulien 15 0 38564 19m 11m R 0.7 2.6 0:00.72 konsole
23285 sjulien 15 0 2312 1128 876 R 0.0 0.1 0:00.04 top


nothing more....
for me 1.3 + 0.7 + 0.0 = 2% of cpu or we can see Cpu(s) : 91.0 %us and 8.6%sy ????

What about output from ps command?

The CPU load become standard with playing radio with amarok ???

Is it possible that the sound card driver saturate the CPU ?

Config sound : AC97 intel onboard chipset / ALSA.

Thanks.

to reply to Ghostdancer, with ps I had the same value from Top.

Hey no, it is not that.

I reboot my box and I have the same troubleshoot !!!!

I start playing with amarok again and the CPU stay to 100% load without any reason.

Thanks to help me please

This seems to be kernel related. There seems to be others also facing such problem:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source...eta/+bug/30570

To be honest, I am not sure how exactly to solve your problem. You are using the default kernel or self built kernel? You may need to play around with the kernel configuration in order to fix this problem.

My wife had this just happen to her Slack12 box.

She fixed hers by upgrading to Firefox 2.0.0.7 and by going into Control Center, then selecting Sound & Multimedia, then selecting Sound System, and at that screen she removed the check in the box of Enable the sound system.

This is information I see in her notes on this problem. Good luck

I have a personal kernel 2.6.21.5 it's a standard kernel without smp and compiled for P4.

I visite the launchpad.net and I try everything they said but nothing do.

I made a kernel compiled for i386 CPU and it is the same thing !

Now I try to reinstall my box to see if my CPU continue to working for nobody.

Thanks.