Jaunty keeps my PIII working hard

[edhawk2]

I upgraded from Ibex to Jaunty last week and the system monitor shows that my Dell Latitude (PIII /1200 MgHz)'s CPU is working close to 90% just running the OS with no applications opened. I have a gig of RAM and I'm wondering if more RAM will ease up the load on the processor.

Any suggestions??

[surfed]

iF you run "top" what process uses all that cpu power?

[edhawk2]

I'm very new to this linux,

what is "top?"

[surfed]

Open a terminal (Applications/Accessories/Terminal) and enter top at the comand prompt. What are the topmost command listed and how much cpu do they use?

[edhawk2]

This is interesting, the first lines read something like this:

USER %CPU %MEM COMMAND
root 66.8 2.9 Xorg
freevo 12.9 3.7 pyth8.3on
ed 8.3 8.8 firefox
ed 6.6 1.8 gnome-system-mo

[surfed]

67% for X is too much.... what video card is in that dell? is freevo running on purpose? Gnome system monitor is using almost 7% of cpu, use top instead to save resources.
Kill all freevo processes and see if X use goes down.

[strikeback03]

I'm having similar issues with my desktop. This is reasonably modern hardware (E6600 C2D, P965 chipset, 4GB DDR2) and CPU usage is hovering over 80% on both cores. Here is the result of top:

3696 steve 20 0 23624 2996 660 R 45 0.1 22:31.02 dbus-daemon
3883 steve 39 19 158m 17m 5948 R 43 0.4 20:19.28 tracker-indexer
3822 steve 20 0 212m 20m 8976 R 39 0.5 20:11.51 python
3828 steve 39 19 297m 18m 5424 R 32 0.5 14:58.17 trackerd
8166 steve 20 0 592m 158m 26m S 3 4.1 2:19.87 firefox
3127 root 20 0 290m 99m 15m S 1 2.6 1:28.75 Xorg
3800 steve 20 0 310m 43m 15m S 1 1.1 0:25.42 compiz.real
3489 chipcard 20 0 27700 1956 1100 S 0 0.0 0:17.28 chipcardd4

so dbus-daemon, tracker-indexer, python, and trackerd are all taking a lot of resources. This didn't happen previously in 8.04. Any ideas what is wrong?

[surfed]

I'm having similar issues with my desktop. This is reasonably modern hardware (E6600 C2D, P965 chipset, 4GB DDR2) and CPU usage is hovering over 80% on both cores. Here is the result of top:

3696 steve 20 0 23624 2996 660 R 45 0.1 22:31.02 dbus-daemon
3883 steve 39 19 158m 17m 5948 R 43 0.4 20:19.28 tracker-indexer
3822 steve 20 0 212m 20m 8976 R 39 0.5 20:11.51 python
3828 steve 39 19 297m 18m 5424 R 32 0.5 14:58.17 trackerd
8166 steve 20 0 592m 158m 26m S 3 4.1 2:19.87 firefox
3127 root 20 0 290m 99m 15m S 1 2.6 1:28.75 Xorg
3800 steve 20 0 310m 43m 15m S 1 1.1 0:25.42 compiz.real
3489 chipcard 20 0 27700 1956 1100 S 0 0.0 0:17.28 chipcardd4

so dbus-daemon, tracker-indexer, python, and trackerd are all taking a lot of resources. This didn't happen previously in 8.04. Any ideas what is wrong?

I had similar issues with tracker, just disabled it as i dont need everything indexed....

[fjpos]

I upgraded from Ibex to Jaunty last week and the system monitor shows that my Dell Latitude (PIII /1200 MgHz)'s CPU is working close to 90% just running the OS with no applications opened. I have a gig of RAM and I'm wondering if more RAM will ease up the load on the processor.

Any suggestions??

Hi too high CPU Xorg ers.

After trying to close down a few services to perhaps see what if anything I was using was overusing Xorg I eventually stopped vino-server which in itself was not using a lot of the CPU. However straight after I killed it bang my CPU usage went down 1%-4%. Vino-server is part of the gnome remote desktop. The system still did feel a little highly strung with the CPU happy to increase with compiz usage which I have somewhat turned of some it's features. Note before I upgraded all worked fine under 8.10. However 9.04 is now a how lot better as expected. I hope this may help

[edhawk2]

I'm in a bit over my head in all this, but here's a very interesting thing:

I shut down the blue tooth stuff under system/admin/system services. CPU usage went down to below 20% and the free-vo disappeared. I opened admin's system monitor and CPU usage went back up to 80-95%. I then opened top and closed the system monitor and CPU usage went back down to about 18%.

What is this telling me?

[surfed]

I'm in a bit over my head in all this, but here's a very interesting thing:

I shut down the blue tooth stuff under system/admin/system services. CPU usage went down to below 20% and the free-vo disappeared. I opened admin's system monitor and CPU usage went back up to 80-95%. I then opened top and closed the system monitor and CPU usage went back down to about 18%.

What is this telling me?

So whats that process using the cpu when you open system monitor

[a2z]

I"m also experienciing extrodinary high cpu usage all of the sudden. At 100% on one cpu.

"System monitor (Process)" indicates only gnome-panel using 24%cpu

"Top" indicates cpu 100%
"gkrellm" = cpu 0=0, cpu1=100%, cpu2=0, cpu3=0

It also shows 3 users? I'm assuming root is one user, me the second, but I never set up any additional users.

I hope this info helps a little in regards to getting this problem resolved.

I also commend all linux distro board monitors for their excellence and time sorting through literally thousands of different configurations not to mention operator malfunctions. My hats off to you all. Thanks!

a2z

asus p5n-d
intel q6700 2 dual quad 2.66ghz
corsair 2x2gig
wd 500gig hd
nvidia 8500gt
x86_64 Kernel Module 180.44

[surfed]

it shows 3 users as one logged into x, and one for each open terminal window.
System monitor is 24% total of all cores while gkrellm is 100% on one core of 4 cores. gnome panel should not take up all of one core, investigate.