CPU usage at 97-98% with not alot running

[Karl Larsen]

On 03/18/2010 12:00 PM, J wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 13:16, Pete Smout<peter.smout at 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.
>
>    
     Hi Pete, I had the exact same problem in my Lucid Alpha computer. I 
worried about it and went back to my old 8.04 version of Ubuntu and saw 
the CPU use drop to 5%. Then in a day I went back to Lucid and was 
surprised to see it was again low. So right now it is a usage of 2% and 
it never gets above 20% no matter what. So look at yours right after you 
reboot and it should be low.


73 Karl