On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 05:08:57 -0800 Michael Rasmussen <mich...@jamhome.us> dijo:
>On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 09:07:00PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> For the past several days my Thinkpad T61 has felt hot. And I have >> two CPU monitors in the Gnome panel, one for CPU0 and the other for >> CPU1, and they have both been running close to the max all the time. >> >> I tried Gnome System Monitor, but it shows nothing taking more than a >> few percent of the CPU. When I run top it shows top as taking 95-100% >> of the CPU (strange), but nothing else is ever more than 10%. >> >> The CPUs running at close to the max all the time continues even if I >> reboot and log in, but do not launch any apps at all. > >Boot from CD and do a root kit check. >How is your network access in all of this? The network seems fine; no change. I installed and ran: chrootkit rkhunter unhide They all reported nothing, except "unhide sys" found a long list of hidden processes. "Aha!" I thought. So I checked them with top (maximum 20 at a time). All looked perfectly normal and only two or three were consuming any CPU% at all, and they were taking only 1-3%. The only oddity was that several had more than one instance of the process running, and one (console-kit-dae) had around 60 instances running. But none of them were taking any CPU or RAM. I tried to figure out from man top how to tell top just to give me an interactive CPU graph or statistics. I think the GUI (Gnome System Monitor) is lying. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
