Why is my CPU maxed? Process list included.

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Sunday 12 August 2007 05:06:12 pm Jordi Ferrando Fabra wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> This process is "eating" a lot of CPU
>
> tilleyrw 19735 26.7  2.0  56736 10532 ?        R    Aug07 2070:58 klash -x
>
> kash: free Flash movie player - standalone player for KDE
>
> Try uinstalling it and see if it works...
>
> Robert Tilley escribió:
> > I'm running a stock Edge install with no big services like Apache, etc. 
> > In KSysGuard, my CPU Usage is pegged at about 100%. I'm was completely
> > baffled by why my machine is so unresponsive until I saw this!  Can
> > someone help explain its meaning?
> >
> > Here's the process list at the moment.
> >
> > tilleyrw at tilleyrw-desktop:~/tropic-rewrite$ ps aux
> > tilleyrw  5008 37.9  1.9  56732 10068 ?        R    Jul31 6527:46 klash
> > -x 46138
> > tilleyrw  5013 39.4  1.9  56736 10060 ?        R    Jul31 6776:32 klash
> > -x 46138
> > tilleyrw 19735 26.7  2.0  56736 10532 ?        R    Aug07 2070:58 klash
> > -x 75499
> > tilleyrw  2116 11.2  3.3  56736 17496 ?        R    17:35   1:59 klash -x
> > 658833
> >
> > I know this ain't Windows, but should I just do a complete reinstall of
> > Kubuntu Feisty?  Maybe delete my ".kde" directory and begin with fresh
> > preferences?

IF you look you'll see you have at least 4 instances of "klash" running.  You 
can kill them off with "kill <processid>" and you'll get your processor back.  
You may need to watch this going forward.

You don't need to uninstall klash, you may just need watch that its actually 
going away when you stop it, or when you stop the browser.  

You can check this and find out what's using the most of your processor by 
using ksysguard, hit [ctrl]+[esc] and it'll come up.  You can then sort 
by "user%" or "System%" and find out what's using resources.  

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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
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