100% CPU??

[NoOp]

On 05/28/2011 06:05 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 5/28/2011 7:52 PM, dave boland wrote:
>> The Gnome panel app and System Monitor are showing unusually high CPU at
>> 100%.  Normally it is between 33% and $47%.  The Process window, sorted
>> for %CPU is in the correct range when I total the apps running.  What is
>> going on?  The performance of the system feels normal, but I'm worried.
> 
> Well, I don't know about other people who do diagnostics but for me this
> is pretty broad.  I can name thousands of things (right off) that could
> go wrong and cause that kind of CPU usage.
> 
> Lets start off with taking a snapshot of CPU usage, try:
> $~: ps -eo pcpu,user,args | sort -k 1 -r > ~/cpu_snapshot.txt
> 
> Post it back to us using:
> https://paste.ubuntu.com
> https://pastebin.com
> 

Given that he already has System Monitor running, wouldn't it be just as
easy to click SM|Processes|%CPU^ and see what is taking the most cpu?
Or, if using a terminal: $ top