CPU usage at 97-98% with not alot running

[Colin Law]

On 18 March 2010 17:16, Pete Smout <peter.smout at o2.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been experiencing a slow system for a couple of days now, I initially
> put it down to graphics issue but now i am not so sure!
>
> having reinstalled my nvidia driver, and still experiencing the problem i
> looked a bit deeper and when i opened the system monitor is shows my cpu at
> 97-98% with only ktoorrent and amsn running (and system monitor of course!).
> the only thing showing in system monitor as using cpu power is ktorrent with
> a value of 1.

In system monitor on the Processes tab have you selected View, show
all processes?  Then click on the %CPU column heading (possibly click
twice) and will show the processes consuming CPU at the top.

Colin

>
> I am running 9.10 karmic on a athlon 3200+ cpu with nvidia geoforce 5200+
> pci graphics card and 1.5 gb ram.
>
> when playing 3d games such as foobillards on the system in question (my
> favourite pool sim) the sound is also out of sync badly to the extent that i
> break the pack open line up the next shot and the sound of my first shot is
> played!
>
> this started at appropriately the same time as the kernel upgrade to
> 2.6.31-20 generic maybe just a coincidence i dont know!
>
> thanks in advance for any light you can throw on this puzzle (if it was
> windows i'd swear i had a bug of some kind but this is ubuntu!!)
>
> regards
>
> Pete
>
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