Weird Problem

[Karl Larsen]

On 03/24/2010 07:58 AM, J wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 06:40, Colin Law<clanlaw at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> On 16 March 2010 12:53, Karl F. Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>      
>>>         I ran top on my Lucid Alpha fully updated and to my surprise
>>> it told me the CPU was maxed out at 98% used! So checked
>>> around and could not find a problem. So rebooted to my 8.02
>>> version which has all old stuff.
>>>
>>>         Here everything is working but top tells me the CPU is
>>> running less than 10% almost all the time! This is what I
>>> expect since the CPU is quite fast. Also this is a 32 bit
>>> system and the Lucid is a 64 bit version.
>>>
>>>         Any ideas? I will keep testing and looking for the problem.
>>>        
>> The first suggestion is to look at what process is consuming the cpu.
>>      
> Indeed.  Karl, do you realize that when you rebooted into 8.04, you
> killed off whatever process was driving the CPU usage up?
>
> My vote is Firefox... it usually does that to me, regardless of what
> version of an OS I'm running, especially if there's a page with Java
> apps on it.
>
> 	I just checked. Usage is around 10% so I started Firefox and read a file, and it went up to almost 30% doing that. So dropped Firefox and it went back to 10%.

     It had to be a case of upgrades that were not running right. I can 
not get it to even reach 50% no matter what!

73 Karl