slow system performance after switching to battery on my laptop

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

This was some output of TOP, also I checked the system monitor in the
gnome menu and nothing was misbehaving even when I viewed ALL processes.
This is happening continuously since it was running on battery and it's
really getting on my nerves. Thanks for your prompt reply.  

PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
  958 ???    16   0  398m 170m  35m R 19.2 34.5  22:33.69 firefox-bin
21777 ???    36  19 90200  19m 5056 S  9.0  4.0   0:00.27
gnome-video-thu
 5104 root      16   0  354m  47m  24m R  5.6  9.7  79:22.41 Xorg
14694 ???    15   0 83120  11m 8548 S  5.3  2.4   0:02.79 gnome-terminal
14484 ???    15   0  208m  24m 9.9m S  5.0  4.9   1:21.76 xfmedia
12422 ???    15   0  197m  31m  16m S  3.0  6.4   3:38.64 nautilus
 1572 ???    15   0  205m  29m  16m S  2.7  6.0   0:12.33 evolution


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:39 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On 18/10/06, Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>         I noticed that when my laptop (sony vaio fs115e) runs on the
>         battery my
>         system runs A LOT slower. Can I avoid this?
>         
>         Now the problem is that even though it's plugged in to the
>         wall and it's
>         been rebooted several times everything is so slow, the screen
>         savers 
>         jerk across the screen at like 1fps and my game gl-f117 that
>         used to run
>         silky smooth at like 60fps is also reduced to just one frame a
>         second.
> 
> What does "top" tell you when this occurs? 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black...