topic title: CPU 100% all the time
Posts: 98
loukingjr
Joined: 06 Nov 2009
#1
I posted this over at mepislovers but, on the test of anti-x 8.5. Conky reports 100% cpu usuage all the time. although it doesn't seems to be slowing the system.
Posts: 1,308
BitJam
Joined: 31 Aug 2009
#2
The command line htop program can list processes sort by CPU usage. Use the F6 key to select which column to sort by. This should let you know what app is eating up all your CPU.

You can get a one-time printout of the top 9 processes with:

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$ ps ax --sort pcpu -o %cpu,comm | head
If you're not sure what to do next, post the output of this ps command here.
Posts: 98
loukingjr
Joined: 06 Nov 2009
#3
well hmmm, seems was some quirk because now is back to normal. beats me. all I was running at the time was FF. Even after I quit FF and was doing"nothing" conky never changed. now it's fine
Posts: 1,228
secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#4
If this happens again, open htop, find firefox's line, press F9 and enter to kill it. If you don't do so even if the window closes it keeps running in the background.