Activity during idle

[mayagrafix]

When the PC with Ubuntu 64bit system sits at idle, one of the cores goes into 100% use, which stops immediately when I start using it again (Note: this 64bit OS is installed via WUBI).



I have two other PC's with Ubuntu 32bit systems and they just sit there, at idle, with little or no activity while they are not in use.



Whats going on? is the 64bit system engaged in maintenance or something?

Thanks for any help this forum may provide

[mayagrafix]

I remember a while back there was a similar issue while running System Monitor when the PC is at idle with the CPU going off full throtle (Pentium II days, with one lonely CPU).

Do ya think this is something akin to that problem? where it turned out that there was a bug in the System Monitor software that needed tweaking?

Thanks for any help and your most valuable attention

[mayagrafix]

I tried to monitor the CPU activity using a Terminal (ps -A > TOP) to see if the problem is related to System Monitor, but did no get much info about core running at 100% when PC not in use. Any Ideas?

[mayagrafix]

I know you guys are bz due to the 12.10 release, so at least send up smoke signals that someday someone might answer this query.