Morning all,
Before with 8.04 system monitor showed my cpu usage to be at about 15% or so on average, with 8.10 though it never shows below 50%... Why?
PS: I have a Toshiba Satellite L40/17U (that is, Intel Pentium Dual CPU (T2330) at 1.6GHz each).
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Morning all,
Before with 8.04 system monitor showed my cpu usage to be at about 15% or so on average, with 8.10 though it never shows below 50%... Why?
PS: I have a Toshiba Satellite L40/17U (that is, Intel Pentium Dual CPU (T2330) at 1.6GHz each).
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Can you post the output ofCode:top
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hehe, just as I finished posting the thread I though of supplying that, anyway, here it is:
Code:PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5503 root 20 0 428m 89m 8956 R 15 9.0 10:18.53 Xorg 4727 root 20 0 2968 1836 536 S 7 0.2 8:52.34 acpid 18667 johanhar 20 0 84068 24m 12m S 5 2.4 0:01.42 gnome-terminal 1183 johanhar 20 0 271m 147m 26m S 3 14.8 10:05.22 firefox 5369 haldaemo 20 0 2296 944 804 S 2 0.1 2:07.48 hald-addon-acpi 5274 haldaemo 20 0 6400 4360 3592 S 2 0.4 2:26.63 hald 27836 johanhar 20 0 23052 15m 7100 S 1 1.5 0:34.62 compiz.real 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 1 0.0 0:22.66 ksoftirqd/0 2481 johanhar 20 0 2416 1168 884 R 1 0.1 0:00.08 top 23913 johanhar 20 0 39768 22m 13m S 1 2.3 0:12.96 gnome-panel 26645 johanhar 20 0 21252 3212 1848 S 1 0.3 0:17.12 gnome-screensav 31471 johanhar 20 0 24464 11m 8684 S 1 1.2 0:35.60 multiload-apple 1 root 20 0 3056 1884 564 S 0 0.2 0:02.54 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.64 migration/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0 6 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.36 migration/1 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:23.34 ksoftirqd/1 8 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/1 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.10 events/0 10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:04.38 events/1 11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:04.30 khelper 51 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0 52 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1 54 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0 55 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1 57 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 58 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:05.40 kacpi_notify 140 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 cqueue 144 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.02 kseriod 189 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 191 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.06 kswapd0 233 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
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Your cpu usage seems to be ok. The only thing is that firefox seems to be using a lot of memory.
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I can handle that, although if you can point to a site or post that will help get that down it'll be most appreciated. Its just bothering me slightly that the cpus are running at 50% when the system is idle
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I'm also noticing high cpu usage, but I could trace down the problem a little further.
I was noticing that my system only got slower after a while, not right from the beginning when I logged in. Eventually I could trace down to Nautilus. If I don't open Nautilus, my system runs fine. Right after opening Nautilus my system becomes incredibly slow, and stays that way even after killing nautilus. And the strange part is that, the process that has high cpu is not nautilus itself, but Xorg.
The test I use is pressing some letter key (for a while) in a text editor. Ideally it should print the letters smoothly and fast. After loading Nautilus, it prints some, it hangs, print some more, hangs again, etc...cpu is at 100% when I do that.
For now, the only way I could find to fix this is to logoff and log in back again. Killing nautilus doesn't fix it...as I said it's the xorg process that has high cpu.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
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After doing the text editor text as described by you it seems our problems are not similar. What are your performance specs, maybe my cpu can handle the extra load a little better.Originally Posted by carlmig
I haven't really noticed any major performance loss since the update, mainly because I don't use very demanding software. But still it can't be good for battery life can it?
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I don't believe my CPU will make that difference. It's a T9400 @ 2.5Ghz
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I find it puzzling that a sleeping gnome-terminal uses 5% of CPU time. Did you have any application output to gnome-terminal at the time? If it was top itself then it's still puzzling. Even if I have top running on top of gnome-terminal and updating the screen every second, gnome-terminal uses 0% of CPU time. Compared to my experience, Xorg also uses a lot.
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I have this issue too. My machine is Toshiba Satellite L40-14G (1.7GHz Celeron). I've just installed Ubuntu 8.10 and, according to monitor, CPU is maxed out constantly. Desktop does not feel jerky though, typing is fine, and fans does not go into overdrive, so, I wonder, can it be an error in reporting? Anyway, it bothers me, because it is certainly not normal.
top (see below) shows that most of the CPU usage is due to the system, but unfortunately I've no idea how to investigate further. Any suggestions?
Code:top - 10:01:22 up 1:34, 3 users, load average: 2.79, 3.02, 2.98 Tasks: 129 total, 5 running, 124 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 38.2%us, 61.1%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.7%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1025084k total, 929332k used, 95752k free, 35988k buffers Swap: 2433808k total, 1792k used, 2432016k free, 387532k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5126 root 20 0 458m 117m 10m S 12.3 11.7 9:21.40 Xorg 4551 root 20 0 2836 1768 536 S 6.3 0.2 5:50.88 acpid 26454 root 20 0 58524 46m 22m S 3.3 4.6 3:20.95 synaptic 4972 gombo 20 0 26184 18m 7200 S 2.0 1.8 0:57.03 compiz.real 4878 haldaemo 20 0 6440 4428 3616 S 1.7 0.4 1:43.19 hald 4977 haldaemo 20 0 2296 940 804 S 1.7 0.1 1:48.80 hald-addon-acpi 5453 gombo 20 0 98.6m 24m 12m R 1.3 2.5 0:01.34 gnome-terminal 18286 gombo 20 0 176m 86m 22m S 1.3 8.7 2:57.31 firefox 51 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:07.74 kacpi_notify 7648 gombo 20 0 21492 12m 7480 S 0.7 1.2 0:09.64 gtk-window-deco 14900 gombo 20 0 41816 25m 13m S 0.7 2.6 0:12.54 gnome-panel 32374 gombo 20 0 24948 14m 8220 S 0.7 1.4 0:01.22 notification-da 1 root 20 0 3056 1888 564 S 0.0 0.2 0:01.36 init
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