processor at 100%

[Patrick Siglin]

I just tell mine not to start in the GUI and use it when I need to. I was 
having this problem if I left the gui up for a couple of days.

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Charles Malespin <ubuntu.physicist at gmail.com>
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:57:32 -0600
Subject: Re: processor at 100%

> 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
> 
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