processor at 100%

[Thomas Olsen]

On Tuesday den 7. March 2006 05:53, squareyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> it's been happening more often recently, something seems
> to be taking over the processor. I run Gkrellm all the time,
> and it is showing that the processor is running at 100%,
> if I close everything, with only Gnome Desktop open,  it remains at 100%.
> Mouse becomes very sluggish and jerky.
> System monitor also shows it at 100%. Is there anyway I can find out
> and kill the culprit.
>
> System Monitor shows only Character applet, Gnome System monitor
> running, Gam_server on and off at this moment.
> Using 133.7 meg of 250 meg of ram
> Using 128.9 meg of 729.5 of swap.

It's usually gam_server that's the culprit. Try:

sudo kill -HUP `pidof gam_server`

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Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen