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mewrei
December 10th, 2009, 05:52 PM
Is there a way to profile running daemons and threads?

I'm having an issue where for some reason, my load count will SKYROCKET (going up to at least a 5 on a dual core machine but will sometimes go as high as 15) and causes every running desktop application to freeze.

If possible I'd like to search through all of these threads and see if I can find what's creating the bottleneck.
akashiraffee
December 10th, 2009, 06:57 PM
I'm having an issue where for some reason, my load count will SKYROCKET (going up to at least a 5 on a dual core machine but will sometimes go as high as 15)

What meanest thou by "load count"?
mewrei
December 10th, 2009, 08:44 PM
Load Average
akashiraffee
December 10th, 2009, 11:36 PM
Load Average

Okay. I've never had noticeable problems with this, unless it was when the immediate processor usage was a distraction.

Which does isolating processes on the basis of CPU time or activity help?
mewrei
December 10th, 2009, 11:37 PM
Okay. I've never had noticeable problems with this, unless it was when the immediate processor usage was a distraction.

Which does isolating processes on the basis of CPU time or activity help?

Mostly in figuring out what the issue is. Right now I'm suspecting of OpenSSL which is the common application between the applications that freeze.