high cpu useage

[Frank McCormick]

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Tim M wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > 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
>     >
>     >
>        Which programs (last column on right) are using up CPU time. You can
>     also adjust the refresh time in HTOP.
> 
>     Cheers
>     Frank
> 
> 
> the right hand column has a command heading so that must be the programs
> you are referring to. /usr/bin/X :0 -br -audit 0 -auth
> /var/lib/gdm/:0,Xauth -nolist (that is as far as I can read on that line.

Yeah but what's important is how much CPU time is X using ? Same for
Firefox and the next couple of programs. X normally (on my desktop)
using about 1.3 %, firefox less than that. The only problem I have ever
had was using a specific theme on Icewm.

Gkrellm and some of its plugins can also be problems sometimes. What are
you running on the laptop that you don't run on the desktop?


Cheers

Frank
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