<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'Ubuntu'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> Hallo Guus Dank je wel, thank you very much, for your really useful and elaborate answer. One question remains for now. At the very end of your reply, you write: > Now you have 1024 + 256 cycles: about 20% for all processes in this > tasks file. The tasks file is currently empty.> > All you have to do is copy 199001 to tasks (if that is the process > that is hogging the CPU): echo 19901 > tasks When trying "echo 19901 >tasks", I got the following result: root@Viaconsensus-travel:/cgroup/cpu/vreters# echo 19901 >tasks bash: echo: write error: No such process "echo 199001 >tasks" (with 1 zero more) delivered the same non-result. That's why I am wondering how exactly to get to know which task is "hogging the CPU". > > From then on, you should have a more responsive system. ... > I really hope this helps. After getting a reply to the one question above, I will try out the last part of the solution you propose. In this forum, I will briefly report the result. > You can find > out what is wrong with the process later. This is perfectly OK. Respectfully yours, Bas. -- Drs. Bas. G. Roufs Van 't Hoffstraat 1 NL-3514 VT Utrecht Nederland E. BasRoufs@gmail.com M. +31 6 446 835 10 T. +31 30 785 20 40 Websites in constructie: <ul type="circle" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; -qt-list-indent: 1;"><li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://basroufs.eu/">BasRoufs.eu</a> </li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://viaconsensus.nl/">Viaconsensus.nl</a> </li> <li style=" font-size:12pt;" style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="http://rainbowgathering.eu/">RainbowGathering.eu</a> </li></ul> Open source OS: <a href="http://www.kubuntu.org/">Linux Kubuntu 11.10.</a> </body></html>