Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top but IS reported by gnome-system-monitor :)

2004-07-27 Thread Luke Anderson
I saw this question on an archive and as there was no solution I thought it best to share mine. Although top does not report any process as eating the CPU, a program called gnome-system-monitor does :). If you are using kde and having high CPU usage problems, as some of the boxes I've installe

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-12 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:35:49AM -0600, Justin Guerin wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has seen anything like this. Here's a copy of top: I had the same problem. I eventually figured out my problem when I switched from KMail using mbox to mutt using Maildir. The mbox files were horrendously

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 05:09 pm, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:21:07 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > >40 GB IBM 60GXP Hard Drive > >40 GB Western Digital 400JB 8MB Cache Hard drive > > Aha! Both on the same IDE cable? > > If they are, try switching it to having one on each cable, if you

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 05:03 pm, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:07:13 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > > >It's really annoying.. Could this be a misbehaving driver? How would I > >find out? > > What is the output of "ps -uagx"? Are there any defunct processes there? A whole crapload of pro

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:21:07 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: >40 GB IBM 60GXP Hard Drive >40 GB Western Digital 400JB 8MB Cache Hard drive Aha! Both on the same IDE cable? If they are, try switching it to having one on each cable, if you only have two IDE bays on your motherboard try putting the CD

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:07:13 -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: >It's really annoying.. Could this be a misbehaving driver? How would I >find out? What is the output of "ps -uagx"? Are there any defunct processes there? Also try these following commands: df -h free vmstat Could even be a problem wit

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Justin Guerin
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 11:58, Brent Miller wrote: > Justin Guerin wrote: > >My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. I > > can't seem to figure out what's causing the load. I know that > > something is, though, because xscreensaver is running very slow. > > Some dae

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 08:35 am, Justin Guerin wrote: > I am wondering if anyone has seen anything like this. Here's a copy of > top: > > > My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. I > can't seem to figure out what's causing the load. I know that something > is, though, be

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 09:44 am, Ken Gilmour wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:36, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > > But what's accounting for the 32.1%? I have about 30% usage all the > > time too and the top couple entries add up to less than 5 percent > > followed by a bunch of processes with a cpu usage of

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Brent Miller
Justin Guerin wrote: >My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. I can't >seem to figure out what's causing the load. I know that something is, >though, because xscreensaver is running very slow. > Some daemons (mysql comes to mind) won't show up under top, but of cour

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:36, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > But what's accounting for the 32.1%? I have about 30% usage all the time > too and the top couple entries add up to less than 5 percent followed by a > bunch of processes with a cpu usage of 0%. So what's using 25% of my cpu > when I'm not d

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Leo Spalteholz
On April 7, 2004 08:45 am, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Hi Justin > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:35, Justin Guerin wrote: > > > > Cpu(s): 32.1% us, 67.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, > > 0.0% si > > > > > My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. > > > > The 67.9% S

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Adam Aube
Ken Gilmour wrote: > The 67.9% SY is the system idle process... The amount that the system is > Recognising as free... sy = system. So your CPU is really just using up > 32.1% in this example No, id is the idle process. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Ken Gilmour
Hi Justin On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:35, Justin Guerin wrote: > Cpu(s): 32.1% us, 67.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si > > My CPU is 100% utilized, but no processes seem to be using the CPU. The 67.9% SY is the system idle process... The amount that the system is Recognisi

high system cpu usage, no culprit in top

2004-04-07 Thread Justin Guerin
I am wondering if anyone has seen anything like this. Here's a copy of top: top - 09:28:43 up 1 day, 36 min, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.06, 1.31 Tasks: 108 total, 1 running, 106 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 32.1% us, 67.9% sy, 0.0% ni, 0.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si M