>
> Any thoughts.
>
> Geoff
open up a console, launch "top" and you'll see something
like this:
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66 processes: 64 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 11,9% user, 2,7% system, 0,0% nice, 9,3% idle
Mem: 192132K av, 181268K used, 10864K free, 0K shrd, 1960K buff
Swap: 369484K av, 43396K used, 326088K free 92832K
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
23543 user 17 0 1012 1012 796 R 4,7 0,5 0:00 top
1572 user 14 0 8656 7432 6684 S 1,8 3,8 36:15 kdeinit
1578 user 16 0 2996 2300 1840 S 0,9 1,1 57:57 artsd
1 root 8 0 172 140 108 S 0,0 0,0 0:04 init
2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:01 keventd
3 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0,0 0,0 0:00 kapmd
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The first one in the list is the one taking up the biggest chunk of the CPU.
watch top for a couple of nimutes and tell us what you see.
Damian
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