OK. It was xosview eating up 87% of my cpu. Now, everthing is back to normal... Thanks.
NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > My laptop wmcpu type applets show the cpu running at full speed all the > > time. I this a problem? What should I do about it...? > > Try top and see what is the process that eats up all the CPU. > Naturally you should not see CPU working a lot, unless you are, for > example, starting Netscape. For example, on my computer CPU load is 5-8% > at most, when I'm not doing any compilations/etc. > If a process eats up 95% of CPU it means it's crashed. Some processes just > don't die quietly when they crash, but go into loop instead, therefor > eating all the CPU. > > What are consequences of that? Anyone? > I'd figure heat that builds up will eventually become a problem > overheating your CPU, which will result in errors and crashes. > > So 'top' and see whats causing the problem. THen kill the process, if > needed. > > Andrew > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrei S. Ivanov > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > UIN 12402354 > http://members.tripod.com/AnSIv <--Little things for Linux. > >
