yogyakor
July 17th, 2013, 08:02 AM
I have installed Lubuntu 13.04 on a generic Core3 desktop. It was running well for a few days, but now I experience a very high default CPU usage. I've tried booting into previous version of kernel and uninstalled some software, all to no avail. Any suggestions on how to get CPU down to normal?
top - 13:54:05 up 15 min, 2 users, load average: 1,41, 1,51, 1,07
Tasks: 156 total, 2 running, 154 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 18,8 us, 15,6 sy, 0,0 ni, 65,2 id, 0,3 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,1 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 1740160 total, 843836 used, 896324 free, 34064 buffers
KiB Swap: 1790972 total, 0 used, 1790972 free, 620632 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
868 syslog 20 0 32340 3468 1100 S 9,0 0,2 1:19.54 rsyslogd
958 messageb 20 0 3656 1512 968 S 7,0 0,1 1:00.43 dbus-daemon
1340 darmayud 20 0 71252 6936 5612 S 4,7 0,4 0:42.76 lxsession
10894 darmayud 20 0 534m 80m 45m S 4,7 4,7 0:46.20 chromium-browse
1201 root 20 0 27396 4724 3360 S 4,0 0,3 0:34.57 polkitd
1191 root 20 0 89908 27m 21m S 3,0 1,6 0:29.08 Xorg
1196 root 20 0 44360 6040 5052 S 2,3 0,3 0:21.29 NetworkManager
1449 darmayud 20 0 283m 16m 12m S 2,3 1,0 0:23.45 nm-applet
1673 root 20 0 28864 3772 3084 S 2,3 0,2 0:19.09 upowerd
988 root 20 0 7512 2908 2292 S 2,0 0,2 0:17.49 modem-manager
1265 root 20 0 34376 3404 2780 S 2,0 0,2 0:17.80 console-kit-dae
1435 darmayud 20 0 61072 4428 3160 S 1,7 0,3 0:18.02 xfce4-power-man
1426 darmayud 20 0 101m 10m 6364 S 1,3 0,6 0:09.89 conky
top - 13:54:05 up 15 min, 2 users, load average: 1,41, 1,51, 1,07
Tasks: 156 total, 2 running, 154 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 18,8 us, 15,6 sy, 0,0 ni, 65,2 id, 0,3 wa, 0,0 hi, 0,1 si, 0,0 st
KiB Mem: 1740160 total, 843836 used, 896324 free, 34064 buffers
KiB Swap: 1790972 total, 0 used, 1790972 free, 620632 cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
868 syslog 20 0 32340 3468 1100 S 9,0 0,2 1:19.54 rsyslogd
958 messageb 20 0 3656 1512 968 S 7,0 0,1 1:00.43 dbus-daemon
1340 darmayud 20 0 71252 6936 5612 S 4,7 0,4 0:42.76 lxsession
10894 darmayud 20 0 534m 80m 45m S 4,7 4,7 0:46.20 chromium-browse
1201 root 20 0 27396 4724 3360 S 4,0 0,3 0:34.57 polkitd
1191 root 20 0 89908 27m 21m S 3,0 1,6 0:29.08 Xorg
1196 root 20 0 44360 6040 5052 S 2,3 0,3 0:21.29 NetworkManager
1449 darmayud 20 0 283m 16m 12m S 2,3 1,0 0:23.45 nm-applet
1673 root 20 0 28864 3772 3084 S 2,3 0,2 0:19.09 upowerd
988 root 20 0 7512 2908 2292 S 2,0 0,2 0:17.49 modem-manager
1265 root 20 0 34376 3404 2780 S 2,0 0,2 0:17.80 console-kit-dae
1435 darmayud 20 0 61072 4428 3160 S 1,7 0,3 0:18.02 xfce4-power-man
1426 darmayud 20 0 101m 10m 6364 S 1,3 0,6 0:09.89 conky