<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <pre> Message: 4 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:00:32 -0400 From: J <dreadpiratejeff@gmail.com> Subject: Re: CPU usage at 97-98% with not alot running To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> Message-ID: <36dec4ff1003181100m59b442dbq3a51a1c4915a4598@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 13:16, Pete Smout <peter.smout@o2.co.uk> wrote: > this started at appropriately the same time as the kernel upgrade to > 2.6.31-20 generic maybe just a coincidence i dont know! So obviously, the first thing to do is boot an older kernel. the updates don't remove older kernels, so you should have a boot option for -20 and -19 and older kernels at boot time. So I'd try the last known working kernel first, then go from there. Thanks for the prompt reply, tried that still slow! think i fixed it by killing aplay and foobilliards (still running even though ended on gnome). all seems back to normal again!! </pre> <hr />Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID27925::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:032010_1' target='_new'>Learn More.</a></body> </html>