problems with Maverick!

[Alan Pope]

On 21 October 2010 14:07, Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
<kjetil1001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> After updating to Maverick, the machine is always working very hard,
> the cpu making noise continuously,
> even if I am only using firefox.
>

Open a terminal and run "top".

See what processes rise to the top of the list. Here's a sample from
my laptop working hard so you know what to look for. You're looking
for the first few things in the "COMMAND" column.

top - 14:26:38 up 1 day, 18:25,  9 users,  load average: 3.77, 3.52, 2.58
Tasks: 223 total,   5 running, 218 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.9%us, 46.2%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id, 40.4%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.5%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3087384k total,  3000548k used,    86836k free,   162612k buffers
Swap:  2016152k total,        0k used,  2016152k free,  2141528k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
29520 root      20   0 40536  25m  14m R  100  0.8  11:30.48 aptitude
21892 root      20   0  9752 7428 1596 R    8  0.2   0:00.23 python2.6
 1261 root      20   0 84276  18m 8916 D    1  0.6  35:36.45 Xorg
 2615 alan      20   0 57388  14m  10m S    1  0.5  43:54.41 clock-applet
23287 alan      20   0 24604  20m  568 D    1  0.7   0:17.90 du
21824 alan      20   0  2620 1192  848 R    1  0.0   0:00.04 top
   33 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:24.57 kswapd0
  317 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:12.51 kjournald
  771 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   1:10.03 phy0
  812 root      15  -5     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   1:49.66 kslowd000
 2253 alan      20   0  111m  20m  14m S    0  0.7  22:39.87 empathy
 2273 alan      20   0  162m  31m 8192 S    0  1.0   1:09.99 dropbox
 2550 alan      20   0 45768  21m 4528 S    0  0.7   5:36.09 ubuntuone-syncd
 2609 alan      20   0 49080  11m 8872 S    0  0.4  13:00.85 sensors-applet
 2671 alan      20   0 18744 4784 3524 S    0  0.2   0:17.87 indicator-messa
27103 alan      20   0  2620 1272  932 S    0  0.0   3:14.59 top
    1 root      20   0  2876 1700 1192 S    0  0.1  80:02.65 init
    2 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd
    3 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.78 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.69 migration/0
    5 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/0
    6 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.66 migration/1
    7 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:03.99 ksoftirqd/1
    8 root      RT   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 watchdog/1
    9 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:11.96 events/0
   10 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   2:18.31 events/1
   11 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 cpuset
   12 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
   13 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 netns
   14 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 async/mgr
   15 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 pm
   17 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.34 sync_supers
   18 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:08.39 bdi-default
   19 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
   20 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kintegrityd/1
   21 root      20   0     0    0    0 R    0  0.0   0:06.58 kblockd/0
   22 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.10 kblockd/1
   23 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:15.58 kacpid
   24 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.80 kacpi_notify
   25 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpi_hotplug
   26 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux
   27 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:01.43 ata_sff/0
   28 root      20   0     0    0    0 S    0  0.0   0:02.41 ata_sff/1