high cpu useage

[Frank McCormick]

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Tim M wrote:
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> On 11/3/07, *Frank McCormick* <fmccormick at videotron.ca
> <mailto:fmccormick at videotron.ca>> wrote:
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>     Tim M wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     > The cpu usage on this Dell Inspiron 1200 is running between 40 to 70%
>     > with almost nothing running. My desktop system, also running 7.10
>     Gutsy
>     > . . . runs with extremely low cpu usage even with twice the programs
>     > running. I think this have been covered before but I didn't pay a
>     lot of
>     > attention to the discussion. Anyone have any ideas how I should
>     > troubleshoot this problem?
>     >
>     > Tim
> 
>     Sure. Use top or htop in a terminal to see what's sucking up your
>     resources. 
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> I installed htop and see a display of all the programs running. User
> root is using much of the cpu but firefox-bin jumps up to first place at
> times. It is hard to follow.
> Tim  
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> 
   Which programs (last column on right) are using up CPU time. You can
also adjust the refresh time in HTOP.

Cheers
Frank
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