Questions tagged [cpu-load]
The system load is a measure of the amount of work that a computer system is currently performing.
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Is it normal behavior for processor speed to quickly throttle, ignoring PL1/PL0 constraint power limits?
I recently got a Gigabyte Areo 17 i9-12900hk, and have put Ubuntu 22.04 kernel 5.19 on it. I ran s-tui to run it through a quick stress-test and found some odd processor behavior that does not happen ...
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CPU overloads with fans running high speed when laptop is plugged in to the power
I have a MONSTER TULPAR T7 V20.5 laptop(a foreign brand). I have Ubuntu 23.04 installed with the kernel version of 6.2.0-20-generic x86_64.
The problem is CPU overload when the laptop is plugged into ...
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Firefox: "isolate+" process CPU usage 100%
I have a completely new Ubuntu install with firefox. When browsing on my usual sites, I get over 100% CPU usage due to the process "isolate+". Google has been completely useless. I have ...
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How to troubleshoot extremely high load averge (over 550)?
I am Ubuntu 18.04 user, running in OVHCloud Datacenter for 3 years with PHP Application and Mysql server on it. For 2.5 years, everything was ok, but in last 6 months i have strange issuee:
Every 4th ...
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Using ERGO WO2-CRC9 USB Modem/Roater make my laptop very hot and power-consuming
I'm LUbuntu 22.04.2 LTS user. When I insert ERGO LTE USB Wi-Fi router WO2-CRC9, the laptop (HP Probook) stays very-very hot independently on the current load, the fan runs continuously, and the ...
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Chrome and Firefox max out CPU usage after recent update, rendering computer unusable
I have system that is several years old and has been running well. A while ago I updated the OS 20.04.5 LTS and things still seemed pretty good.
More recently I approved a normal suggested update that ...
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pmd high CPU usage
For a couple of days my laptop has been consuming a lot more power than before, noticeable by how fast the battery runs out when not plugged. This is matched by periodic (~20-30s) fan noise spikes ...
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Gnome shell uses excessive amounts of CPU?
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04LTS, with only the Built-in extensions (i.e. Desktop Icons, AppIndicators and Dock) installed. Since updating to 22.04 I noticed that my mouse would begin to stutter frequently,...
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High CPU usage after Nvidia driver update in 22.04.1 LTS
I recently updated the OS on my Lenovo ThinkPad P51 from 20.04.3 LTS to 22.04.1 LTS. Everything was working normally after the update, except that a particular graphics-heavy website wasn't working ...
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after changes in CPUQuota my system became very slow
I changed the CPUQuota=50% so that my system could use mimimum CPU resources but due to these changes my system became very very slow could anyone please help me to revert these changes and bring my ...
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check which process cause high cpu utilization in last 24 hours
Is there any possible command or way to check which process caused high cpu utilization in last 24 hours , because last night at 11:30 pm date:-30-nov-2022 we got alert that cpu utilization was high , ...
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CPU usage on dual socket motherboard
Ubuntu's system monitor shows CPU usage for each core separately. I have a motherboard with two CPU sockets and want to know how much CPU on socket0 is loaded and how much CPU on socket1 is loaded. ...
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400% CPU usage on Linux server
Recently we moved our full stack website to new server (Vultr instance). After moving to new server we are constantly getting 400% CPU usage issue.
It's been fifth day since we are getting 400% CPU ...
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Efficiently get PID's in certain ports from java
I know sudo lsof -t -i:{port} will give the list of PID's involved in that port and I can run this command via java by Runtime.getRuntime.exec() command. But the thing is I have thousands of thread ...
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Ubuntu 22.10 CPU usage unusually high
Just upgraded to 22.10 from 22.04 and I've noticed that CPU usage fluctuates between 20-50% (on all cores) whenever I do something like moving a window, for example.
On 22.04 I had the same problem at ...
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Unknown process using high amount of CPU
My CPU usage is reporting as running at 100%
Running top -i I get
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3696734 root 20 0 2492344 6456 3504 S 1143 ...
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CPU usage is at 100% on a fresh install
I have freshly installed Ubuntu on my pc.
I noticed in task manager that the CPU is at 100% on all cores
I opened the top command in the terminal.
There were 4 programs that consistently were at 40-...
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Constant high CPU usage because of sound card interrupt
One of my 16 CPU cores is always working at around 50% CPU capacity. There is nothing showing in htop or top which indicates a high usage, so I started digging and found with (cat /proc/interrupts) ...
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cmake consumes 100% of CPU
I noticed a very high CPU usage on Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.4.0-125-generic x86_64).
Using htop I can see 3 processes with the command:
/usr/share/[cmake] --config=/usr/share/[cmake].pid
which ...
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High CPU Use -Bash Process
I can't seem to figure out why a bash process is sucking up nearly all the cpu capacity. It only recently started doing this. How do I trouble shoot this? I see some articles talking about killing the ...
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spamassassin "spamd child" process using 90% or more CPU
On my Ubuntu box, one of spamd child processes often takes 90%+ CPU.
This started a few months ago. The box had worked for many years without this problem.
I thought installing 21.10 caused it and ...
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CPU usage increase when changing number of cores of the VM lively
I am working on increasing the number of virtual cores of the KVM virtual machines lively using libvirt. I created a virtual machine with 2 cores. Here are the initial core settings.
virsh vcpucount 2
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sddm-greeter cpu usage, lxqt
I've got an annoying issue that I am trying to troubleshoot and could use some help!
I have 10 lxqt VM's managed via proxmox on a rather old machine. The OS needs to be very light and low on resource ...
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Computer randomly slows down
Sometimes my computer slows down for no apparent reason. I was trying to find the culprit using htop, but it looks like this phenomenon affects the whole system, i.e. everything starts using a lot of ...
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chrome/opera linkedin triggers high cpu level
I have been using Linkedin from both Opera and Chrome (also Chromium) on Ubuntu both 18.04 and 20.04). I usually keep many tabs open and checking with the Task Manager when I open Linkedin the CPU ...
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pmproxy using 100% CPU
For a couple days now, I notice a process called pmproxy using 100% CPU on bootup and stays at 100%. I kill the process and it restarts a couple seconds later. I renamed the folder /usr/lib/pcp and ...
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RSyslog CPU usage > 100%
We currently have RSyslog Server (On Linux Ubuntu 18.04 VM LTA with Size: Standard D4s v3 4 vcpus, 16 GiB memory) receiving logs from ZScaler Proxy & FortiGate Firewalls and ingesting them into ...
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Dedicated System Monitoring Display Software?
I have a display hooked up to my server which I plan to have an always-on system monitoring readout. Things like system temps, load percentages, console output, the like.
Looked for a bit and I can't ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 melting my computer! Slight burning smell from vent! [duplicate]
After migrating from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04, my CPU is burning hot and disk activity is off the charts, while this seemingly un-killable set of processes slams my CPU and harddisk:
tracker-miner-...
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Why System Monitor doesn't show all processes, though I selected "All"?
I selected "All processes". I see that it eats 2%-4% CPU:
However, in "Resources" all cores are loaded way higher:
"All processes" are selected:
And I run it as sudo
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Firefox on Ubuntu 21.10 has high CPU usage and will not load sites but other browsers do
Firefox was working like a charm until today when it decided to stop working. It was not loading any sites but other browsers could. When running it had high CPU usage but the UI worked normally. I ...
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systemd-udevd causes high load after upgrade to Ubuntu 21.10 server on Raspberry PI 4
After upgrading my Raspberry Pi 4 8GB from Ubuntu 21.04 to 21.10 I got high load due to systemd-udevd. I made a clean install of Ubuntu server 21.10 but the problems remain. I use a SSD (no SD card). ...
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Old Laptop with Xubuntu Slow due to Web Browsers
I have an old Gateway NE71B with AMD Dual-Core Processor E1-1200 running Xubuntu 18.04. It has gotten quite slow even when entering text into a browser search bar. I was using chromium and the ...
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Constant Load of 1.0 on fresh Ubuntu Server installation on Raspberry Pi 4
My system, which I freshly installed yesterday has a constant load of about 1 and I don't know why.
I have Ubuntu 21.04 64bit server running on RasPi4 cased in a DeskPi Pro V2. There is a 4TB HDD ...
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A responsive live desktop 21.04 image produces a slow VM image
When I boot up a live desktop ISO in Virtual Machine Manager (kvm/qemu), the live system is super snappy and when I look at the "Resources" in the System monitor the 4 supplied cores are ...
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irq/185-AudioDS using more than 60% of the CPU
i just installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with kernel 5.11.0-27-generic on a Acer Swift 3 SF314 and i have a process called irq/185-AudioDS that uses more than 60% of the CPU all the time.
top command
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ALL CPU's stuck at 800Mhz ubuntu 20.04.3
Cpu's all stuck at 800Mhz
I type in watch -n1 "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz" (to see cpu's)
No matter what I do, I launch a large program and render an animation in Blender or use Octave to ...
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cpufreq: cpu frequency going down to minimum just when I need extra power
I've spent almost 3 days around this problem, to no avail.
I felt the laptop was running slow on certain tasks, slower than usual so I downloaded cpufreq extension to try and monitor and maybe ...
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kworker eating 85% CPU 1 most of the time!
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04, kernel 5.4.81, and kworker/0:1+kac is using 85% CPU 1 most of the time.
Here is some useful info:
top output:
System Monitor CPU load:
perf report:
Samples: 56K of event '...
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Understanding the Htop output
I am a recent user of Ubuntu. I am running some simulations in my Ubuntu 20.04 which don't run successfully. When I look at the usage, I see numbers like these.
Does this mean that my machine is ...
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To many process running for chrome and code on ubuntu 20
I'm using chrome and VSCode and my system is hanged after sometime and CPU usage will be above 100%.
My Machine is having 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of SSD, yet it is hanging and i need to restart.
I have ...
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CPU utilisation reaches 100% on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS on using normal application[VS Code] and browsers[Chrome/FF]
The list of programs I generally run in parallel while facing 100% of CPU consumption are:
VS Code
Chrome [4-5 tabs]
Firefox [2-3 tabs]
On chrome, I normally take calls using GMeet which includes ...
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kthreaddi process making cpu usage 100 percent, process keeps coming back after killing
I have recently been facing an issue on my azure VM server, where my CPU usage has been going up to 98-99% continuously. When i used the top command i got the below results
top - 08:55:27 up 23:14, 1 ...
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Overall CPU utilization% of 'htop' is smaller than a process' cpu usage
Because of my stupidity, I can't provide any screenshot of such phenomenon. My 2-core system's cpu utilization(which is output of htop command) is smaller than the cpu usage of a process.
For example,
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Why is kdeconnectd, xdg-desktop-portal-kde, and yakuake taking up so much CPU?
I get this every time on bootup. Killing any of them doesnt work unless I pretty much nuke it from orbit, including uninstalling yakuake.
I am also using Wayland at the moment, and am running Kubuntu ...
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Ubuntu Server on Raspberry PI 4: High CPU usage
I just installed Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS on Raspberry PI, updated packages and installed Postgres. The device is essentially doing nothing. However, I see in top and uptime outputs: load average: 1.00,...
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gnome shell increasing cpu usage over time, why does it and how can I fix it?
Running Ubuntu 20.04, all software up to date, on a Dell T5500 workstation with 2 six-core cpus and 48g ram. Using different graphics cards and drivers makes no difference.
When I leave my workstation ...
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How to learn what processes have been eating CPU over a period of time?
I have a CPU that has been maxing at 100% for a few days. However, htop and top do not reveal any especially obvious processes consuming cycles.
How can I find out what is eating cycles?
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Way to speed up cp -a (using cp -a within a thumb drive is very slow)
When using a thumb drive with a persistent operating system, it happens that the persistent partition casper-rw gets corrupted, if one pulls out the thumb drive too early after shutting down the ...
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Check max cpu clock speed in linux
I have seen this question multiple times but no answer to the point.
I am on Ubuntu 20.04, CPU is R9 5950x.
All I want is a stress test where it shows the max clock speed (in MHz) and
what a single ...
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