Weird Problem

[Karl Larsen]

On 03/24/2010 04:40 AM, Colin Law 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.
>
> Colin
>
>    
     It went away for some reason.  This morning it is using 2% of the 
cpu so Lucid is just like all Ubuntus and should not use much cpu. Why 
it went so high is a mystery.


73 Karl