Constant high cpu usage
Keith Clark
keithclark at k-wbookworm.com
Mon Oct 26 20:57:11 UTC 2009
I have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor with 4 GB of RAM running Ubuntu
9.04 and my CPU usage is consistently close to 100%. I've tried turning
off Compiz, but that makes no difference.
Here is a capture of TOP:
top - 16:51:47 up 2 days, 21:52, 2 users, load average: 7.05, 3.34,
1.57
Tasks: 210 total, 6 running, 204 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 62.7%us, 35.7%sy, 1.7%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
0.0%st
Mem: 3931056k total, 3317952k used, 613104k free, 234928k buffers
Swap: 11687248k total, 0k used, 11687248k free, 2414984k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
10389 root 20 0 328m 34m 12m S 9.0 0.9 0:27.80
Xorg
11780 keithcla 20 0 25580 5120 660 S 5.0 0.1 0:09.22
dbus-daemon
11720 keithcla 20 0 169m 8284 6160 R 3.3 0.2 0:06.49
x-session-manag
11789 keithcla 20 0 47476 7264 2340 S 3.0 0.2 0:05.69
gconfd-2
11816 keithcla 20 0 220m 11m 7372 S 2.3 0.3 0:02.93
gnome-settings-
12611 keithcla 39 19 59280 33m 3068 R 1.7 0.9 0:01.89
apt-check
11838 keithcla 20 0 211m 18m 9044 S 1.3 0.5 0:01.86
python
11834 keithcla 20 0 139m 11m 5392 S 1.0 0.3 0:00.62
trackerd
11927 keithcla 20 0 208m 10m 8216 S 1.0 0.3 0:01.91
indicator-apple
13069 keithcla 20 0 243m 33m 9048 S 1.0 0.9 0:02.78
compiz.real
14968 keithcla 20 0 0 0 0 R 1.0 0.0 0:00.03
vino-server
6116 chipcard 20 0 27588 1528 836 S 0.7 0.0 41:54.61
chipcardd4
12100 keithcla 20 0 258m 17m 10m S 0.7 0.5 0:00.88
empathy
12124 keithcla 20 0 158m 3120 1520 S 0.7 0.1 0:01.88
gnome-screensav
2771 boinc 20 0 73272 5036 2072 S 0.3 0.1 10:01.60
boinc
11803 keithcla 20 0 40856 2356 1932 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.32
gvfsd
11825 keithcla 20 0 335m 25m 15m S 0.3 0.7 0:03.11
gnome-panel
11845 keithcla 20 0 143m 9116 6848 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.49
notify-osd
11859 keithcla 20 0 335m 14m 10m S 0.3 0.4 0:00.51
evolution-alarm
11860 keithcla 20 0 199m 16m 10m R 0.3 0.4 0:01.01
gnome-terminal
11861 keithcla 20 0 162m 8120 6388 S 0.3 0.2 0:00.44
tracker-applet
11863 keithcla 39 19 149m 12m 5392 S 0.3 0.3 0:00.70
tracker-indexer
11868 keithcla 20 0 246m 30m 10m S 0.3 0.8 0:01.30
ubuntuone-clien
11918 keithcla 20 0 205m 9900 7800 S 0.3 0.3 0:00.25
multiload-apple
12105 keithcla 20 0 51316 3684 2996 S 0.3 0.1 0:00.46
mission-control
14969 keithcla 20 0 191m 6224 4784 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.01
vino-server
1 root 20 0 5240 1792 380 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.72
init
When I am logged out of the machine, I can log in via SSH and run TOP
and my system just idles along fine with little CPU usage. It is only
when I'm logged into the system directly. Xorg and dbus-daemon are
always the top two processes in order or CPU usage.
I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting this issue.
Keith
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