CPUs running at 100% (Hardy Heron, Dell XPS M1330)

[Luis Paulo]

I mean, Does the laptop freezes immediately after the CPU goes mad? :)

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Luis Paulo <luis.barbas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would it be reasonable to ask you to explain better?
> "CPU runs away and then freezes my machine" (for how long it runs away and
> how you see it). Why can't you see the processes running in that time (with
> watch top, for instance) but you can see the cpu running away?. Does the
> laptop freezes? So, how you see it? Too short time, not conclusive, I think.
>
> It happens if you don't run firefox? May be a problem with an add-on?
>
> Sorry if you already answer that.
>
> Thanks Jeff and Liam
>>
>> Jeff, yup when I ran my DELL hardware test I ran everything from fan tests
>> to RAM. So all good there we hope.
>>
>> I'm really not seeing any particular process causing the problem, and also
>> seem to feel that I can't make a convincing argument for hardware being the
>> issue. I suppose my concern is that there's been an update that has somehow
>> buggered things up. But surely Canonical/Ubuntu check this on a laptop
>> they've agreed LTS on?
>>
>> Any other words of wisdom on what next to do?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Quin
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