Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-11 Thread Jan Claeys
Op vrijdag 08-05-2009 om 00:40 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Timo Sirainen: Somewhat relevant, yes, but I think people talking in that page don't understand correctly the root cause of the problem. Linux scheduler is good enough nowadays that even lots of processes all eating 100% CPU

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-09 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 08.05.2009 um 14:47 schrieb Andrew Sayers: [...] then send a STOP signal to processes guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, before asking the user what to do. Please ask the user first. There are very valid reasons why a system is running under full steam. For example, if one makes actually

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-08 Thread Martin Bammer
Hi, do you know the hardware-monitor applet? I've extended this applet to have exactly this feature. It shows in the tooltip processes which consume lot's of cpu or memory ressources. But because I'm not a gnome/gtk programmer I couldn't get kill buttons into the tooltip. If you are interested I

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-07 Thread Timo Sirainen
On May 7, 2009, at 10:35 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Timo Sirainen t...@iki.fi wrote: If some process has been eating 100% CPU for hours, there should be some kind of a notification that it's happening. Like a small icon could appear to gnome panel and