S L O W S Y S T E M **SOLVED**

[Jay Ridgley]

On 1/1/22 4:33 PM, ubuntu-users-list at thomas.freit.ag wrote:
> Happy New Year Jay,
> 
> On 01.01.22 18:54, Jay Ridgley wrote:
>> Happy New Year,
>>
>> lsb_release -a shows I am running:
>>
>> No LSB modules are available.
>> Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
>> Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
>> Release:    20.04
>> Codename:    focal
>>
>> The software is up to date.
>>
>> Recently, I changed my cable modem and the router associated with my network. The provider for my internet connection tested the connection with the results showing 477Mbps down and 23Mbps up.
>>
>> The new router is a Netgear RAX10 AX1800.
>>
>> Since then my main system has become has become very lethargic (taking a very long time for everything) top shows that MOST of the time the user (us in the top display)is exceeding 50%, even
>> on an idle system. I also noted that there are several instances of a task named Isolate+ that hog the cpu. What is that task's purpose?
> 
> The + sign in top indicates that the string is longer, if you can resize the terminal window top can display longer process names.
> 
> My guess is, that these processes belong to firefox (sometimes I observe "Isolated Web Content"), a feature introduced in May (see
> https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/05/18/introducing-site-isolation-in-firefox/). You can check with ps -ef (which gives you parent process ids)...
> 
> hth,
> Thomas
> 
Thanks Thomas and all the others, I discovered that the problem was 
being caused by a Netgear monitoring task, once I shut it down the 
problem went away.

I will use it only when absolutely required, and I hope that is never.

The task is part of the Nighrhawk app.

Regards,
Jay
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Jay Ridgley
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