The system load is a measure of the amount of work that a computer system is currently performing.
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What's the fairest way to monitor total CPU time - per user?
On a multi user system, I want to measure each user's CPU usage in seconds of cpu time. For the purpose of this measurement, I assume that if a PID belongs to a user, this user is causing the CPU time ...
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Why is Xorg taking up so much memory and CPU?
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu 11.04 Natty after a massive hard drive failure.
Now, for some reason, compiz and Xorg decide it's a fun idea to start eating up my RAM and CPU - GB by GB. Starts out at ...
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Why is ksoftirqd/0 process using all my cpu?
I was feeling ubuntu was running a bit sluggish, and then I went to see the processes running on it, and found one which was using something like 50% of cpu called ksoftirqd/0. Does anyone know what ...
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How do I throttle a command in a terminal window?
I needed to run convert with a lot of images at the same time. The command took quite a while but this doesn't bother me.
The issue is that this command rendered my computer unusable while the ...
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Why doesn't htop display the same processes as top?
I have a home server sometimes running at a high CPU usage rate of about 50 to 70 percents.
In htop, my favorite process manager, I can sort the processes by CPU usage, but often there isn't any ...
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High Load, but nothing running?
I am not sure how this is even possible. Looking at top, my loads are often above 2, 3, 4.0, but I am over 99% idle. There is never a process at the top that is taking up anything, all my processes ...
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Why does my CPU usage keep spiking?
My CPU usage keeps spiking a lot. I can be sitting on my desktop and my CPU usage will go up to around 90%, according to Conky.
Here is the output of top:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S ...
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What's the difference between load average and CPU load?
Here's the output of top:
top - 23:30:49 up 2:18, 1 user, load average: 4.36, 4.36, 4.39
Tasks: 105 total, 2 running, 103 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.6%us, 8.0%sy, 0.0%ni, ...
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identify which chrome tab is using up CPU?
I sometimes have a bunch of tabs opened in Google Chrome, which I believe creates a new process per tab. I would like to be able to pinpoint the tab that is using up the CPU. Is there an easy way to ...
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Very High CPU usage (100%) from just browsing the Web
I tested on Firefox and Chromioum. Im at 100% while loading pages which causes them to load slow and when I dont have a application running Im at 40% CPU (At least)
Everything is slow basically. Im ...
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How to monitor & log server hardware temperatures & load
I am looking for a way to log & monitor my server hardware temperatures and load (like for CPU or RAM). How might I do that?
Objective is to:
ensure hardware is not heating up
identify what ...
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Compiz using 8% - 25% cpu continually
Any tips?
Running Intel Core 2 Quad x64 ubuntu precise 12.04
Dell OptiPlex 760
nvidia graphics driver
UPDATE:
Unfortunately I uninstalled Ubuntu...
Just couldn't deal with the incompatibilities and ...
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Nasty CPU spikes that aren't connected to any visible processes
Really strange issue here. I intermittently keep getting really unpleasant CPU spikes, where the CPU gets to 80-90% busy across all cores for about 5 minutes. When I look at conky, in htop or system ...
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High CPU usage when watching youtube videos (HTML5)?
When I watch a youtube video, especially in HD, the browser I'm using (chrome) will use in excess of 200% of the CPU. This causes the video to stutter and also makes my laptop very hot. Is it normal ...
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Is this CPU usage normal for Xorg?
I checked System Monitor to see if the frequency of my CPU increases without doing anything and saw that xorg is always using 10-40% of the CPU even if it's not doing much of anything on the desktop ...
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Why % CPU doesn't add up to 100?
Why doesn't the "% CPU" in System Monitor add up to 100? (% CPU is the third column on the following screenshot)
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How to impove Ubuntu performance on netbook
Most recent Ubuntu 12.04 seems to be quite nice and Unity (3D/2D) works fine for me, however not on my old Acer Aspire One any more.
There was a times, when I switched from Windows XP to Ubuntu and ...
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Init process at 100% CPU usage
I have a Ubuntu x64 machine on a OpenVZ VPS account on a QuadCore processor with 1GB/2GB(burst). A few days ago I've managed to successfully update it to 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. There's only one ...
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'htop' does not show the correct CPU%, but 'top' does
While running mencoder with threads=4 (on a quad-core cpu). I've noticed that htop does not show its true CPU usage, but top does.
It seems that htop is only reporting on one core. Is this a ...
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Ubuntu One Taking up 40-170% of CPU usage with i5 processor
I am backing up all of my photos and docs, so I have purchased 160GB of storage. Yes, it is a lot of photos...
I am finding that my system is running very slowly while the backups are taking place, ...
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How to setup Thinkpad features on Thinkpad T500
I have a IBM-Lenovo Thinkpad T500. I was previously a exclusive windows user, but recently installed ubuntu and loving it because of speed and interface. The only thing is that I don't get some ...
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How can I disable hud-service?
hud-service keeps eating my cpu. This is troublematic, specially because I'm running 12.04 in a Asus EEEPC. There are a lot of answers on how to change hud bindings, but what I reallyw wonder if there ...
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How can I diagnose what process is using CPU time?
It's a "problem" that i have since 11.10, now I've upgraded to 12.04 (fresh install).
Even while ondemand governor is set, and the computer is idle, fan goes on and doesn't want to shut down.
Images ...
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How can I view the load average over a shorter time period?
uptime reports load averages over the last 1, 5, and 15 minutes.
How can I view the load average over the last 10 seconds?
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why is rtkit-daemon eating 100% of my CPU?
I sometimes have an rtkit-daemon process eating 100% of my CPU and making the system unresponsive. I reboot and things are fine after that. What is rtkit-daemon supposed to do and why would it be ...
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gvfs-afc-volume-monitor uses a lot of CPU
In my Ubuntu 9.10 installation, I notice that the process gvfs-afc-volume-monitor causes my CPU core to go to 100% (that means for my dual-core machine to 50%).
Killing this process helps, but I see ...
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Why is system load average around 9 on login?
I check my start up applications, disable them, but login take a long time and System Load is very high (about 9).
this only happens on default user account, and I have this problem since 10.10 ...
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How to log memory and cpu usage of an application?
Similar to question How to log CPU load?, I would like to log memory of a process.
The process I want to log, is killed on a remote server, and I want to find out the CPU load and the memory usage ...
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How can I prevent [flush-8:16] and [jbd2/sdb2-8] from causing GUI unresponsiveness? [closed]
Approximately twice a week, the entire graphical interface will lock up for about 10-20 seconds without warning while I am doing simple tasks such as browsing the web or writing a paper. When this ...
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Lubuntu 12.10 cpu usage sticks at 100%
I've upgraded Lubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 via the update manager. Now when Lubuntu is loaded, the cpu usage drops to 0% for a few seconds then shoots up to 100% where it stays for 15 or 20 minutes. I ...
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Why is Thunderbird pegging a core at 100%?
I have experienced 2-3 unexplained lockup over last 10 days.
Today, I had a random lockup (no mouse, keyboard response, 100% CPU). But, when I finally switched (Ctrl-Alt-F1) to command line (it took ...
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High CPU usage with Team Speak 3.0.0-rc2
The CPU usage is always around 40 percent. I use push-to-talk and I had uninstalled pulseaudio. Now I use Alsa. I don't even have to connect to a Server. By simply starting TS the cpu usage goes up ...
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Can certain system-hungry modules be disabled?
Let me add some context: I am currently using Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit (Desktop) on a relatively powerful stationary PC (Intel Core i7 920, 12GB ram). My purpose is highspeed imaging with a pointgrey ...
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root running emacs
Today, after about 20 minutes of logging in my Ubuntu 10.4, I notice the CPU and hard disk usage going up. top revealed that root was running emacs23.
It is basically the same behavior described at ...
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How can I get my mysqld-swamped CPU under control? [closed]
I was AFK for about 24 hours and came back to find gnome-system-monitor saying all four CPU cores on my laptop were running at full throttle. mysqld is taking up more than one full core; when I tried ...
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Netbook freezes with high load on every IO operation
I have Acer EEE PC with SSD drives and ubuntu 10.10.
It works fine - most of the time - but after boot or io-intense operation (copying file, installing updates, etc...) load increases to 2, stays for ...
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How do I analyze my CPU usage over a long period of time?
I am just wondering if there's any Ubuntu app that can track my CPU usage.
The problem is that I am currently using a quad core i5,
whilst what I do most in daily usage is just browsing and rails ...
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What is fuser and why is it so processor hungry?
My computer became too slow and according to top fuser is consuming all available cpu time.
What the hell is that? What do I have to do get rid of it?
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12.04 runs my CPU up to 99%
12.04 runs my CPU up to 99% and then lags to the point of having to shut down the laptop to restart it manually.Why is my CPU running so high and what can I do to fix it?
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How to compute PID cpu load?
Please help me to find a reliable way to compute (in a bash script) a jboss PID cpu load.
To be specific, I don't know how to aggregate /proc/[pid]/stat fields to obtain the load a specific process ...
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How can I get instant CPU load values?
I have made a server-client application in which based on CPU usage and load conditions it serves a file request to user.
I am using /proc/loadavg values for this . But this utility gives values ...
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'gnome-shell' process causing 100% Overall CPU utilization? What is going wrong?
Since morning today, my laptop has been freezing up frequently. Only option available at that time is to kill x-server(as ctrl-alt-backspace is the only thing which works that time). I checked "Task ...
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Why four tasks named kslowd eat CPU time?
I installed Unity on my Belinea o.book 13011. Now there are four Tasks named kslowd000 to kslowd003. Each task uses 10-15% CPU, expect there is another Task that needs more.
So the CPU Fan is ...
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Thunderbird CPU usage [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is Thunderbird pegging a core at 100%?
Is there any reason that Thunderbird uses 18-30% of my CPU constantly. This normally wouldn't be a problem but I like to leave ...
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Ubuntu -> Lubuntu? [closed]
Not too long ago I switched from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) on my laptop, which only has a AMD Dual-Core E1-1200 APU 1.4 GHz processor but 4GB RAM, in the hopes that I would get more out of my ...
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How to stop “aptd” from maxing out my CPU?
After running the "top" command in the terminal, I see "aptd" running which causes the cpu to run at 100%. If I'm updating the system, or installing a software, I see it. I only recently noticed it. ...
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100 % CPU usage with “on demand” setting due to Xorg
I upgraded to Oneiric (from Natty) on my IBM Thinkpad X41. With the default CPU speed setting of "on demand" I get 100 % CPU usage.
In System Monitor (nb: view > all processes) the dominant process ...
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What is process “/usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none”?
I am experiencing some serious performance issues with my Ubuntu 12.04 setup and thus looking for the culprit by running htop alongside my usual tasks.
Aside from the usual suspects like chromium, ...
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How come Ubuntu is slowed down even after all resource-hungry apps have exited
I have been wondering this for quite a while, thought I might give a shot asking it here.
Scenario:
I use an application that used a lot of resources (for example image batch processing or ...
