I know it won't burn the CPU , but before it wasn't like that. I think that something isn't alright. Thanks for the reply, after all. Ned <div class="gmail_quote"> 2009/9/13 Andrew Farris <<a href="mailto:flyindragon1@aol.com">flyindragon1@aol.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 11:46 +0300, n3mo wrote: > Hi folks, > I run Ubuntu with Fvwm and without Desktop Manager. At the fresh start > my top looks like this : > > Cpu(s): 4.8%us, 8.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 86.9%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, > 0.0%st </div>This is normal...don't worry about it <div class="im"> > Where this CPU Idle comes from? It's never go away. I mean, when I > start skype, audacious, firefox, etc. CPU usage goes up but the rest % > goes to CPU idle. > Is there way to fix this, before my CPU die. </div>CPU Idle percentage is exactly like your free RAM percentage... It's telling you how much CPU is unused... i.e. idle. It don't going to burn up your CPU or anything. Don't worry about it. hope that helps! -- Andrew _____________________________ Registered Linux User: 473690 Registered Ubuntu User: 22747 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>