Re: excessive CPU usage (SOLVED)

2014-10-03 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2014 11:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel t

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-29 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
This is getting embarassing, hdparm does obvously also need to know which drive to read from, something like "hdparm --read-sector 307316 /dev/sda". I'll not bother the entire list with that :) On 29. sep. 2014 10:48, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 29. sep. 2014 09:32, Julien b wrote: SMART

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-29 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 29. sep. 2014 09:32, Julien b wrote: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 90% 35888 307316 # 2 Short offline Com

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-29 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 29. sep. 2014 09:55, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 29. sep. 2014 09:32, Julien b wrote: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 198 189 000 Old_ageOffline - 232 0 Get a new drive. Sorry to follow up on myself, but, in the mean-time you should

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-29 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 29. sep. 2014 09:32, Julien b wrote: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 198 189 000 Old_age Offline -232 0 Get a new drive. -- Håkon Alstadheim / N-7510 Skatval / email: ha...@alstadheim.priv.no tlf: 74 82 60 27 mob: 47

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-29 Thread Julien boooo
Hello Gary What does "top" returns ? -> high load average ? / high %sys ? ... 2014-09-29 4:32 GMT+02:00 Gary Roach : > On 09/21/2014 11:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: > > Hi all > > For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my > system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minut

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-28 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/21/2014 11:54 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel t

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
I wouldn't want to speculate before using htop and iotop, but for many of the years I used Kmail (and therefore the KDE libraries), I regularly had dbus-daemon instances go rogue and eat up 98% of the processor. It got so bad that I made a daemon to go out every 5 seconds, find any dbus-daemon inst

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:58:38 +0400 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:54:01 -0700 > Gary Roach wrote: > > > Has anyone else had a similar problem or have any idea what is > > going on. > > apt-get install iotop. > Run iotop as root once you experience a slowdown. > The process on t

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 21. sep. 2014 20:54, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. ... at least one of the processors goes to 100% and stays there for long periods ... no noticeable activity in the process tables. ... hard drive indicator c

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:54:01AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all > > For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response > from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and > drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It > has taken as high

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
Could be virtuoso or nepomuk. I had similar problems from time to time that were traced to one of those two programs. On 21/09/14 02:54 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:54:01 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > Has anyone else had a similar problem or have any idea what is going on. apt-get install iotop. Run iotop as root once you experience a slowdown. The process on top of the list is the one which's causing all this mess on your PC (most

excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel to load. This problem is not just these pac