problems with Maverick!
Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen
kjetil1001 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 13:42:41 UTC 2010
see below!
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:27, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> 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".
The results of running top are indeed interesting. The one "winner" is the
process gtk-gnash, typically taking about 60-70% cpu, all others are way behind.
What is that?
Kjetil
>
> 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
>
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