processor at 100%

[Charles Malespin]

On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:23 +1030, squareyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> it's been happening more often recently, something seems
> to be taking over the processor. I run Gkrellm all the time,
> and it is showing that the processor is running at 100%,
> if I close everything, with only Gnome Desktop open,  it remains at 100%.
> Mouse becomes very sluggish and jerky.
> System monitor also shows it at 100%. Is there anyway I can find out
> and kill the culprit.
> 

Im sure there is a better way, but you could enter 'top' in a terminal
and then see the PID of the process at 100%.  press 'k' and then kill
the PID.  Just be careful what you kill....
Charles