CPU at 100% on Natty

[Paul Kaplan]

Main offenders are kded4 running as user and knotify running as root. 


Paul 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Pope" <alan at popey.com> 
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 5:29:45 AM 
Subject: Re: CPU at 100% on Natty 

On 12 May 2011 10:10, Paul Kaplan <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote: 
> I did a clean install of Natty to a desktop machine that had been happily 
> running Maverick. Everything seems to work except that the spends most of 
> it's time churning at 100% use and the system feels slow. 

Run 'top' in a terminal and see what's eating CPU time? 

> I suspect that this is related to the as yet unsolved regression in the 
> 2.6.38 kernel. How can I downgrade to earlier kernel versions to test this 
> hypothesis? 

I understood that regression was a degradation in the duration of 
power when on battery, not a 'pegged CPU at 100%' issue. 

Al. 

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