On 24 February 2011 09:29, Rossen Stoyanchev <rstoyanc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi- > > Apologies if this isn't the right place. Having started as a Ubuntu user in > 7.04 I find myself completely baffled by the this one. > > Every now and then an application starts using a lot of CPU. This is > typically when running Flash or Java typically in a browser but I'm not > completely sure about what triggers. The strange thing is that once the > problem occurs all applications become affected. Even simple things like > opening a file browser or dragging windows around spikes the CPU to 100% for > 10-15 seconds or longer. It's like a gradual melt-down with the system > becoming unusable even for simple tasks. The only solution at that point is > powering off the laptop completely, which takes a long time since all > processes are now really slow to close down. > > Needless to say a very debilitating problem to have and I'm baffled as to how > to narrow things down. I know how to look up CPU usage by process with top > but when all applications begin to exhibit this behavior that's pretty much > useless. > > Thanks,
I have actually experienced this quite a lot recently. The only way I know to properly stop it is to kill it in System Monitor. It seems to be quite specific to when Flash crashes. -- Regards, Kris Douglas. T. 0845 004 2066 | M. 07728574285 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
