high CPU utilization

[Lindsay]

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On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 09:04 +1030, squareyes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 19:57 +0100, Fred Blaise wrote:
> > this is ridiculous
> > 
> > http://madpenguin.org/blogs/chapeaurouge/images/Screenshot-Eterm.png
> > 
> > this an up-to-date hoary.
> > 
> > same thing, same apps running on my laptop running debian unstable shows
> > a 2% CPU usage average, which used to be the case on this computer a few
> > days ago as well.
> > 
> > This causes my desktop to be _very_ slow...
> > 
> > am the only one?? what can look at to define what's wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > fred
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:37 +0100, Fred Blaise wrote:
> > > Hello all
> > > 
> > > I am running Ubuntu Hoary, and it runs perfect, except that for the past
> > > couple days, my CPU usage is high.
> > > At boot-up, gkrellm is launched, I run beep-media-player, stream music
> > > and then do a 'top'. Xorg, gkrellm, bmp share a load of about 25%.... :/
> > > Doing nothing else but the above.
> > > The box is a P4 2.5Ghz with 1Gb of RAM, nvidia drivers on a GeForce
> > > 6600GT. And it's never done that before. It seems that it did that after
> > > some recent Xorg updates? 
> > > Has anyone seen that as well? 
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Best,
> > > 
> > > fred
> 
> Is there a problem?,
> did anyone else get 13 copies of this email?
> 
> winton
> 
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