CPU always busy

[tonygraziano]

Hi there,

I have a Toshiba Protege with Mint 19.3 and have kdenlive image installed. When I work with kdenlive the CPU works at the maximum and the system slown down dramatically. It almost happenes also when I just have Internet browser opened.

A few months ago on the same PC I had mint 17 installed and it did not give these troubles, even with the same programmes.

My CPU is
Dual Core Intel Core i5-3427U (-MT MCP-)
speed/min/max: 903/800/2800 MHz Kernel: 5.3.0-26-generic x86_64 Up: 5h 35m
Mem: 3556.8/5823.6 MiB (61.1%) Storage: 119.24 GiB (61.7% used) Procs: 240
Shell: bash 4.4.20 inxi: 3.0.32

Tahank you so much for your help

[jeremy31]

Moved to Mint

[thehipho]

A few months ago on the same PC I had mint 17 installed and it did not give these troubles, even with the same programmes.

Hi, welcome to the forum!

It's really hard to compare versions of Os's and their related different versions of software, changes may not always be compatible with your install.

And anything CPU intensive needs lots ram and fast graphics!

Post output of:

glxinfo | grep render

[tonygraziano]

Hi, welcome to the forum!

It's really hard to compare versions of Os's and their related different versions of software, changes may not always be compatible with your install.

And anything CPU intensive needs lots ram and fast graphics!

Post output of:

glxinfo | grep render

HI thank you

This is the output

anto@anto-PORTEGE-Z930:~$ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
    GLX_MESA_multithread_makecurrent, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, 
    GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_swap_control, GLX_OML_swap_method, 
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ivybridge Mobile 
    GL_ARB_compute_shader, GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted, 
    GL_NV_compute_shader_derivatives, GL_NV_conditional_render, 
    GL_ARB_compute_shader, GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted, 
    GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_depth_clamp, GL_NV_fog_distance, 
    GL_MESA_shader_integer_functions, GL_NV_conditional_render, 
    GL_OES_element_index_uint, GL_OES_fbo_render_mipmap,

[thehipho]

I recommend adding more ram if possible (8Gb), should make a big difference for old laptops to run newer Os's.

[tonygraziano]

I recommend adding more ram if possible (8Gb), should make a big difference for old laptops to run newer Os's.

Thank you!