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I have been running Ubuntu 14.04 on my HP Pavilion dv6 for 2 and half years now. For the most part, it runs perfect, however recently I have discovered CPU monitors and have realized that my CPU is idling at around 27%-40% and if I am using Firefox, downloading/uploading, or using multiple applications at once it skyrockets to 50%-99% (and this is no joke).

I know that this particular model is famous for overheating. I have had this thing since 2011, and ran windows 7 on it before switching over to Ubuntu. But I have never considered my CPU being the deal.

It has discrete dual graphics cards, as well as two processors.

I will give my specs below

What I am really curious about is whether I should be running the current proprietary drivers and what I should do to cool down my CPU for my particular model? Or, if it is a lost cause.

Computer Processor 2x AMD Turion(tm) II P540 Dual-Core Processor Memory 5849MB (2674MB used) Operating System Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS User Name rin (Rin) Date/Time Mon 07 Mar 2016 12:23:42 PM MST Display Resolution 1366x768 pixels OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD RS880 X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation Multimedia Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA ATI SB Audio Adapter HDA-Intel - HDA ATI HDMI Input Devices Power Button
Lid Switch
Power Button
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
Video Bus
Video Bus
ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer HDA ATI SB Front Headphone
HDA ATI SB Mic
HDA ATI HDMI HDMI/DP,pcm 3= HP WMI hotkeys
HP Webcam
Printers No printers found
SCSI Disks ATA SAMSUNG HM500JJ hp CDDVDW TS-L633R
Operating System Version Kernel Linux 3.13.0-79-generic (x86_64) Compiled #123-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 19 14:27:58 UTC 2016 C Library Unknown Default C Compiler GNU C Compiler version 4.8.4 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.1) Distribution Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

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  • Also, the fan is always running.
    – RinIshi
    Jun 26, 2016 at 22:02
  • Alright, so I ran the top command in terminal and I can see java taking up most of my CPU. I watched it jump from around 30%, up to around 50%, and shot up 103% before it dropped back down to around 48-50%. That is java specifically. I am super curious as to why it would run like it is.
    – RinIshi
    Jun 26, 2016 at 23:51
  • Does it the CPU usage go down when you kill the Java process ? What do you see when you run ps -ww -fp <processid> in a terminal ? (You can see the process id in top or in the system monitor, and you can kill java from the system monitor too.)
    – Jonas Czech
    Jun 27, 2016 at 11:33
  • Yes my CPU usage almost hits 8% when I kill the process.
    – RinIshi
    Jul 17, 2016 at 0:35
  • I was not able to run that command in terminal. I recieved the message:
    – RinIshi
    Jul 17, 2016 at 0:39

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I ended up solving my CPU issue by removing Freenet from my system. Here is the forum I used to help me. https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=792676

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